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

Hi Gyorgyi,

I can see the IT departments reasoning for upgrading OS's.  Unfortunately, for 
AWIPS, we only currently
support RHEL7, and do not plan on offering support for RHEL9 any time in the 
near future.  We will
transition to RHEL8 at some point next year.  

There is absolutely no reason to believe Raytheon would skip RHEL8 either, 
since they are very systemic
in their approach and development style.

We also do not have a RHEL9 system to even test on, and have been unsuccessful 
in creating a virtual
machine to use for testing CAVE.

If you upgrade all your machines to RHEL9, we cannot guarantee AWIPS will be 
supported.  If you are able
to test a RHEL9 machine with CAVE using either your current EDEX (running on 
RHEL7) or our EDEX, then 
you might be able to find and fix any minor problems.  But, I would certainly 
not upgrade the EDEX machines,
especially since they're servers, and won't be running any of that software you 
mentioned (chrome) to
be viewed as a security risk.

I'm sorry we don't have better news at the moment. Let me know if you think 
your IT department would be 
willing to work with you on the OS matter?

Thanks.

--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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