LinuxCNC is in Debian

LinuxCNC has been accepted into the main Debian
distribution. This means it is
now possible to install a fully functioning LinuxCNC system, including a
Preempt-RT realtime kernel
suitable for running real hardware, entirely from official Debian package
repositories.

This is a huge milestone and I’m very grateful to Steffen Möller and Petter
Reinholdtsen from the Debian project for joining us and providing extensive
help and support in this effort.

LinuxCNC is currently in Debian’s “unstable” distribution (aka “sid”, the kid
who breaks your toys). We’re expecting to transition into “testing” (aka
“bookworm”) in the next few days, and possibly into “stable” (“bullseye”)
some time after that.

We at linuxcnc.org will continue to provide up-to-date packages for older
distributions (ie buster and older), and hopefully for newer distributions
at some point in the future. You can continue to get the latest packages from
our buildbot.

The version of LinuxCNC that got into Debian is our 2.9 prerelease , from
our experimental master branch. We should look towards stabilizing this branch
and making a real 2.9 release (or 3.0, or something) this spring and summer.
It will be relatively straight-forward to update the version of LinuxCNC
that’s distributed by Debian, now that the initial heavy lifting has been
done.

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