[AWIPS #NDX-973698]: Cave on RHEL 9

Hey Gyorgyi,

Sorry for the delayed response!

Do you know why you all are moving to RHEL9?  Are you running actual Redhat 
(paid version),
or some other flavor of RHEL, like CentOS?  CentOS7 (which is currently what we 
support) is
not End of Life until next summer (June 30th, 2024).

The NWS has not come out with a RHEL8 version of AWIPS just yet, and certainly 
won't come 
out with a RHEL9 version any time soon.  CentOS8 is not a supported version of 
RHEL anymore,
so we have been looking at supporting Rocky8 as the next OS after the end of 
CentOS7.

Do you know if it's possible to keep your EDEX machines on CentOS7, if that's 
what you're 
currently running?  We can possibly take a look at the CAVE machines, but we 
can't guarantee
support for RHEL8 or 9 at this moment.

Do you think you could get some more clarity on the necessity of the OS upgrade?
Let us know!

--Shay Carter

She/Her/Hers
AWIPS Software Engineer
UCAR - Unidata

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Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: NDX-973698
Department: Support AWIPS
Priority: Normal
Status: Open
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