OpenStreetMap migrates to Debian 12: You may have seen...

OpenStreetMap migrates to Debian 12: You may have seen this toot
announcing OpenStreetMap's migration to Debian on their infrastructure.

🚀 After 18 years on Ubuntu, we've upgraded the
@openstreetmap servers to Debian 12
(Bookworm). 🌍 openstreetmap.org is now faster
using Ruby 3.1. Onward to new mapping adventures! Thank you to the team for
the smooth transition.
#OpenStreetMap
#Debian 🤓

We spoke with Grant Slater, the Senior Site Reliability Engineer for the… https://bits.debian.org/2024/11/openstreetmap-on-debian.html

Like 27 November at 18:05 | Open on framapiaf.org

12 comments

verita84

should have waited for Debian 13

27 November at 18:05 | Open on mostr.pub

Calum Andrew Morrell

@debian Excellent call by @openstreetmap! I've been using Debian for around 7 years now - stable on workstation and server, testing on laptop due to newer hardware - and find it less convoluted than many of the forks. Particularly Ubuntu which just baffles me at times.

27 November at 19:03 | Open on mastodon.dazed-gerbil.com

Marc Chantreux

congratulations @osm_tech

27 November at 19:42 | Open on framapiaf.org

no brain no pain

@debian I moved to devuan at the moment you made systemd the default…

27 November at 19:48 | Open on social.tchncs.de

OpenStreetMap Ops Team

@nobrainnopain @debian systemd is definitely a marmite choice (love it or hate it). Systemd has served us well, the learning curve is steep but the feature set is great. Few example templates https://github.com/openstreetmap/chef/tree/master/cookbooks/systemd/templates/default That said systemd-resolved + dnssec is biting us at the moment.