Debian GNU/Linux 8.1 (Jessie) Officially Released

prisoninmate writes: The Debian Project has announced the immediate availability of the first maintenance release of Debian GNU/Linux 8 (Jessie). As expected, Debian GNU/Linux 8.1 comes with a new Linux kernel, version 3.16.7-ctk11, which fixes the well-known EXT4 data corruption issue caused by delayed and unwritten extents, blacklists queued TRIM on Samsung 850 Pro SSDs, adds support for XHCI on APM Mustang USB, and updates Crucial/Micron blacklist in libata.

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Warning if upgrading from Wheezy:

[Narcocide]

If you don't want systemd then in your /etc/apt/preferences, add:

Package: systemd
Pin: origin ""
Pin-Priority: -1

Alternate

[Anonymous Coward]

Time to move to Slackware then? Or pick another: http://without-systemd.org/wik...

Re:Alternate

[0100010001010011]

Check out FreeBSD

There are more reasonable alternatives

[FreeUser]

> Gentoo + OpenRC here, fuck systemd. If the rest of you enjoy having something shoved down your throats for political purposes

THANK YOU FOR TELLING US WHAT YOU USE!

His point is that you have more reasonable options for a server Linux system than a distribution that has adopted an opaque init system like systemd that is being pushed largely by the desktop crowd (not that you need it for a good desktop...lots of people have been running modern Linux desktops since the 1990s, and have kept up with the latest changes, without adding the complexity and opacity of systemd).

Some options for a systemd desktop OR server Linux system:

• Devuan - a fork of Debian with systemd removed (https://devuan.org/)
• Arch + Openrc (http://systemd-free.org/)
• Gentoo + Openrc (http://gentoo.org)
• Funtoo (http://funtoo.org)

and many more. All of which many find to be much more suited for servers than Fedora or Debian with systemd.