[AWIPS #BLR-748278]: AWIPS Tips: Upcoming CentOS7 End of Life - Thought about using Distrobox running Rocky Linux 8 ?

Hi there,

> When pondering how to run AWIPS Cave on my Linux desktop of choice
> (right now it's Fedora kde 39) this idea came up instead of running an
> AWIPS Cave as a VM.  Although I'm not really facile at creating my own
> VM's for AWIPS in Centos 7, a very smart open source Ubuntu maintainer
> developer, Martin Wimpress, suggested trying Distrobox. It has tools
> that allow the running of entirely separate Linux distributions as
> containers utilizing all the host resources. Rocky Linux 8 is listed as
> one such container distrbituion. This might be great for you developing
> on a host Linux system of your choice, but in the Rocky Linux 8 environment.
>
> For Unidata AWIPS customers who wish to "live" in their Linux desktop of
> choice, running AWIPS Cave within a Rocky Linux 8 Distrobox container
> might just be more efficient than running a separate VM.  By the way,
> I'm not crazy about using the VMware Player given the very proprietary
> leanings of that company. I realize that testing Distrobox is not a high
> priority for you right now given the deadline of the cut over. Just
> something to keep in mind...
>
> distrobox.it

Thank you for bringing this to our attention.  You are correct, at this time we 
don't have
the resources to test out this alternative.  However, if you would like to try 
it out when
we put out our next version of AWIPS, and report back CAVE's behavior (good or 
bad) we would
appreciate learning your findings?

Thanks!

--Shay Carter

She/Her/Hers
AWIPS Software Engineer
NSF Unidata

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Ticket ID: BLR-748278
Department: Support AWIPS
Priority: Normal
Status: Open
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