Debian
Debian is a popular Linux operating system. It serves as the upstream distribution of Ubuntu and is used on all CSL workstations.
Notable Features
It allows you to launch Firefox. For some reason (probably related to Ubuntu/Canonical pushing their
snapdpackage manager), Firefox wouldn't start on workstations after we migrated from AFS to NFS, and Mozilla's builds would get replaced by a stub for the Snap installer, which is absolutely infuriating.
Notable CSL Modifications
Unlike the other OSes, workstations are imaged with USBs instead of netboot.
Trivia
Debian releases are codenamed with Toy Story character names. The workstations use version 12, aka
bookworm.
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