As many of you are aware, linuxcnc currently runs on debian 7, codenamed wheezy and it is eol end of life. Each version also corresponds to a set of named software repositories at least one per cpu architecture. If you wanna know if a specific release version is end of life eol, just specifing flag a in the script. This gives the best realtime performance and is generally a better choice for software stepping using a parallel port. Debian always has at least three releases in active maintenance. To make stuff easy for us we will can configure our small debian system to perform an auto update see more infos here. Eol means that the distribution no longer receives any updates. For more information, please refer to the lts section of the debian wiki. Life cycle info for mainstream gnu linux distributions. Therefore we can use this archive to get packags for our distribution.
After a debian version has reached eol end of life, its repositories go to the debian archive. Debian user forums view topic options for those not. Options for those not wanting systemd as wheezy eol looms by huanglao 20170816 20. Debian is a unixlike computer operating system that is composed entirely of free software, most of which is under the gnu general public license and packaged by a. The debian long term support lts team hereby announces that debian 7 wheezy support has reached its endoflife on may 31, 2018. The package repos are no longer available and its no longer receiving security updates. Wheezy left longterm support in 20180531 11 months ago. This video addresses the options you have to either continue using debian wheezy, or. Debian releases debian wheezy release information debian wheezy installation information installing debian 7. It is also currently known as stable or by its codename buster. The debian 7 wheezy iso uses rtai which linuxcnc has used as the realtime layer since the very beginning.
Linuxcnc for the hobbyist 019 debian wheezy is eol. Debian news debian 7 long term support reaching endoflife. The lts is limited to i386, amd64, armel and armhf. Yep, this is expected wheezy has been eol since april 25th, 2016 which is when the security team stopped supporting it and the lts team picked. Debian lifecycle eol below you can find the life cycle for each version of operating system debian, like debian 10. Furthermore, the fact that repos are down means you cant install packages anymore excepting the linuxcnc repo packages, at least, so even if you accept the security issues of running a nowdead os, its mostly useless anyways. Yep, this is expected wheezy has been eol since april 25th, 2016 which is when the security team stopped supporting it and the lts team picked it up, but the lts support even ended 31 may 2018. Wheezy releases alpha 1 installer, see announcement.
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