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



Thanks for your advice.


On Wed, 26 Mar, 2025, 1:24 pm Hakan Bayındır, <hakan@bayindir.org> wrote:
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,

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.

Best Regards,

Hakan

[0]: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Preseed
[1]: https://fai-project.org/
>
> On Wed, 5 Mar, 2025, 1:45 pm Gard Spreemann, <gspr@nonempty.org
> <mailto:gspr@nonempty.org>> wrote:
>
>
>     Sarbjit Singh Sandhu <sarbjitsinghsandhu509@gmail.com
>     <mailto:sarbjitsinghsandhu509@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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