[cfarm-users] New OS requirements on the farm?

[Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado]

On Thu, 7 Apr 2022 22:46:37 +0200
Baptiste Jonglez via cfarm-users <cfarm-users at lists.tetaneutral.net>
wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> We will soon have to migrate some of the existing x86_64 machines at
> OSUOSL, and we can choose the OS on the new machines.
> 
> What OS would be useful to add to the farm?  We will most likely
> provide Debian and CentOS, but are there other needs not well covered
> by the farm? CentOS stream? 8 or 9? Rocky? Fedora? Arch Linux? Debian
> testing?

Maybe Alpine and openSUSE Leap?. The server with openSUSE is an ARM and
the Alpine server is a VM. Alpine is the only "popular" distro which
uses the musl libc.

> 
> Please be specific regarding versions (CentOS in particular can
> quickly get confusing).  Also, it would be useful to know if you need
> a particular OS only for lightweight tasks, or rather for heavy
> building/testing of big projects.

I only uses the servers for lightweight testing from time to time.


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