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The '''EL Migration Project''' is a 1 year project which will involve upgrading our infrastructure, which is entirely [[Debian]], to [[Enterprise Linux]]. VTLUUG has had issues with Debian, including terrible defaults, upgrading packages overwrites configuration file without warning or means to intervene, inconsistency among packages, and init script issues. EL is a enterprise ready linux distribution that actually has a major company, RedHat, backing it. It doesn't have these problems.

== How will it work ==
Upgrading your entire infrastructure to a new distribution is not an easy task. We are currently in the planning phase. In a few weeks we will be releasing a downtime schedule for our upgrades. We hope to have our entire infrastructure unbroken in a year.

== Progress as of 2016-03-21 ==

We gave up. Only [[Infrastructure:Cyberdelia|Cyberdelia]] and [[Infrastructure:Razor|Razor]] are running on CentOS; all other services currently run Debian 8, or, in the case of [[Infrastructure:Milton|Milton]], Debian 6.

== 2016-10-16 ==
it *may* behove us to move to CentOS/Ubuntu to use [[w:FreeIPA|FreeIPA]]. It is a nice all-in-one [[w:Kerberos|Kerberos]] solution, which will be more maintainable
(one would hope) than [[Infrastructure:Blade|Blade]].
 

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