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Debian 9 (Stretch) Will Be Released Today (twitter.com)
The Debian Project has been liveblogging today's release of Debian 9 (Stretch) using the Twitter hashtag #releasingstretch. Some of the announcements:
- The oldstable suite (wheezy) has now been renamed to oldoldstable
- Debian jessie now been renamed to oldstable!
- The Debian stretch suites have now been renamed to stable!
- The draft debian-devel-announce post is ready, archive docs are being cleaned up
This release is named after that purple octopus in Toy Story 3, and more tantalizing tidbits of information keep appearing on Debian's micronews site:
- At least 1436 people and 18 teams contributed to Debian in 2017
- Stretch has 25,357 source packages with 9,808,465 source files
- There were 13 different themes proposed to be the official Debian stretch theme
- Debian Stretch ships with the free mathematical software SageMath, you can install it with apt
- During the stretch development, 101 contributors became Debian Developers, and 94 more become Debian Maintainers
- Debian Stretch will ship with the first release of the Debian Astro Pure Blend [for astronomers]
- Debian Popularity Contest gathers anonymous statistics about Debian packages usage from about 195,000 reports
So go use Devuan? Or is the anti systemd crowd now joining the SWJ, Vegan, Crossfitter crowds where they cannot stand silent for 5 minutes before announcing their special needs and wants to the world?
You can use a debian derivative without systemd, for example, my favorite...
MX Linux, based on Debian stable
See this
https://mxlinux.org/
and the great forum here
https://forum.mxlinux.org/search.php?search_id=active_topics
A great community, low snark, up to date community repository with the latest and goodies.
Useful MX tools for common tasks.
NO systemd, it uses the older init
You can solve your systemd infection here
ftp://linuxmafia.com/kb/Debian...
Another day closer to redwood heaven