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

Comments

Re: So Devuan's already obsolete?

[that this is not und]

I would rather install and use NetBSD. You don't even need to drop into a shell and run vi anymore to configure NetBSD after installing it.

Re:Congratulations

[drinkypoo]

New releases of Debian were a lot more exciting before systemd. Now I only care about new releases of Devuan.

Re: systemd not

[rknop]

Devuan is a fork of Debian that eschews systemd. It works well for me; indeed, I've been using Devuan testing, and my network of nfs-using machines have been more stable and less trouble than they were under Ubuntu. I recommend it. The more people who use systemd-free distros, the less likely systemd is to take over everything.