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CERN Transitioning Industrial Computers To Debian After Being A Longtime RHEL Institution
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I initially followed on their plans for that thing and from what I remember, they were going to include the older ones too.
But I'd think they would at least be willing to do something trivial like a rebuild for a big name like CERN, if they just called 'support'.
"trivial", because it doesn't require many expensive man-hours, just an additional entry in whatever batch build config they use.