Re: Proposal for a Yearly Stable Release Cycle for Educational Institutions

[Hakan Bayındır]

On 3/26/25 9:56 AM, Sarbjit Singh Sandhu wrote:

Thanks for your suggestion I liked that but can you please help me that how to use and install debian on approx 20 computers of my schools with the kde plasma desktop and how to update them every 2 years and also making it user friendly for the people who are going to use them

Dear Sarbjit,









Best Regards,

Hakan

[0]: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Preseed
[1]: https://fai-project.org/

Debian installation can be automated in various ways. Some of them are Debian native, some are not. With these methods, you can create a custom Debian system which installs the way you want, out of the box, with all the customizations you need. The first way is Debian Preseed [0]. You can create a "Preseed" file and give options and add scripts to your installation to customize it. Second way is FAI [1]. FAI is a "mass-deployment" tool which is aimed at what you want to do. While FAI supports many distributions, Debian is one of them. We used FAI to deploy a Debian derivative distribution that we made country-wide. So it can certainly do 20 computers. There are also other ways to mass-deploy Debian (like xCAT), but it'll be an overkill for your case. So FAI and Preseed are your best choices.

On Wed, 5 Mar, 2025, 1:45 pm Gard Spreemann, <g...@nonempty.org <mailto:g...@nonempty.org>> wrote:

    Sarbjit Singh Sandhu <sarbjitsinghsandhu...@gmail.com
    <mailto:sarbjitsinghsandhu...@gmail.com>> writes:

     > I am writing to propose the creation of a new Debian branch that
     > offers a stable release every year, as opposed to the current 5-year
     > cycle.

    It's really great to see young people interested in Debian. I do need to
    point out that the current cycle has been approximately 2 years long for
    quite a while, not 5.


      Best,
      Gard

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