Which linux distro for very long term weewx ?

[wysiwyg]

Hi there!

I have a weewx at home, but also an other one located at my parents place.

it's setup on an old raspberry that I connect by SSH for check, update or whatever.

I noticed recently that updates are down...my raspbian is too old and don't receive anymore updates.

My plan is to prepare a replacement machine with a new OS, weewx ready so I can plug it next time I'm there.

it may be an x86 style (there are some nice thinclient that could be purchased refurbished for very low price) or raspberry or similar (nanopi?...)

Anyway, whatever the hardware, I am looking for a very long term support, so I don't need to perform release upgrade that I would prefer avoid from ssh.

I would be happy to have some suggestion for weewx friendly linux with support, let'say >5years. Any recommandations ?

I recently heard about "ubuntu core" which is made for IoT, long term & security. It seems nice on the paper, but I have no clue if installing weewx on this could be easy or painful.

it seems that some feature like "apt-get" are not available out of the box like regular ubuntu server.

Best regards,

[vince]

On Thursday, April 30, 2020 at 11:33:57 AM UTC-7, wysiwyg wrote:

Anyway, whatever the hardware, I am looking for a very long term support, so I don't need to perform release upgrade that I would prefer avoid from ssh.

Depends on your hardware and what os variant(s) you want to support at the parents' place.

Not to get into os wars here, but centos8 has almost 10 years of life in it and it is supported by the new weewx v4 that just came out today.   It's literally a couple commands to install the rpm and a matching webserver.

[wysiwyg]

Hi!
Thanks for your feedback!
Well, regarding hw, it will be either a raspberry (or similar) or a used thinclient that I would use as a tiny weewx server.
I have no intention to launch an OS war too :-).
I am more experienced with Ubuntu/debian family, but I will have a look to centOS.
My issue with Ubuntu is that it's "only" 5years support. It's not so bad, but if some other give 10years,why not trying (it's also en opportunity to learn something new too)