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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
Critiquing technology != SJW crybullying
Debian is the leader
Oh, so you think ubuntu is, hrhr
Like most people like you that have no clue, without debian, ubuntu wouldn't exist, ubuntu is based on debian.
It's astonishing how many people don't know that
Now, go play with your antiviri, malware, spybot, rootkit, updaters and reboot a few dozen times in between updates and in the mean time, I will get some work done on my debian sid system.
http://distrowatch.com/index.p... 7 days or 6 months debian is #1
Windows people, can't live with them ..... We can live without them
Complaining shaming is sad.
Complaining is hate speech.
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.
New releases of Debian stable *should* make the front page of Slashdot. It's a proper Big Deal. You can make a huge list of things that Debian stable is not: Not the most used distro, not the most user friendly distro, not the most up to date distro, not the most "libre" distro, etc... But, if you want to find a distro that meets one of those criteria, it's probably based on Debian. When they release a new stable version, the entire open source community benefits.
Here's to decades more of Debian stable!
Because some of us prefer 1,200 lines that work with 17 that don't?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."