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Debian GNU/Linux 9 'Stretch' Installer Gets GNU Screen, Linux Kernel 4.7 Support (softpedia.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the playing-at-the-multiplex dept.

"Debian developer Cyril Brulebois was pleased to announce this past weekend the release and immediate availability of the eighth Alpha development snapshot of the Debian GNU/Linux 9 'Stretch' installer," reports Softpedia. An anonymous reader quotes their article: It's been four long months since Alpha 7 of Debian GNU/Linux 9 "Stretch" hit the testing channels back in July, but the wait was worth it as the Alpha 8 release adds a huge number of changes, starting with initial support for the GNU Screen terminal multiplexer and lots of debootstrap fixes, which now defaults to merged-/usr.

"debootstrap now defaults to merged-/usr, that is with /bin, /sbin, /lib* being symlinks to their counterpart in /usr (more details on: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/09/msg00269.html)," wrote Cyril Brulebois in the mailing list announcement, where it states that default debootstrap mirror was switched to deb.debian.org.

3 of 58 comments (clear)

  1. EditorDavid, do you even edit? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Seems like EditorDavid isn't actually a real editor in any sense of the word. You see, a real editor would have taken one look at this submission and said, "What a minute... these 3 disconnected paragraphs don't make it clear what 'Stretch' is or why an 8th alpha release is special enough to warrant a post on Slashdot. This was clearly written by someone who may or may not understand the subject well, but doesn't know how to accurately and concisely communicate that knowledge to others. This isn't fit to post."

  2. Re:All linked in /usr ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Of course they know why /usr existed in the first place, the article references two discussions about the merits and downsides of such a move. To me the critical argument is that the original use case you cited of late mounting /usr to a networked filesystem is already broken, mostly by udev, and fixing it is not realistic or worthwhile.

    I'm not sure that they remember why the path existed in the first place. I remember the unnecessary joining of /usr/local and /usr/X11R6. I am pretty sure they also forgot that the 'S' in sbin stands for static und not superuser.

    Regardless of this it is a bad design decision to change a well thought out file system layout because someone misplaced their files (Hello udev, hello systemd). That would have been far easier changes with less repercussions and kept the system more flexible.

  3. Re:Still poisoned by systemd? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Not strictly true, it works with an alternative init, but system D is still everywhere else. The state of maintenance of the alternative inits is far from good and systemd-shim is being abandoned.

    It's systemd/debian now, get over it. Accept it or see it as damage