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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
No one cares whether you want Debian 9 or not. You are irrelevant and absolutely nobody cares about you. Perhaps instead of whining about Debian 9, if you don't like it, create your own distro that doesn't use systemd. It's open source, so absolutely nothing prevents you from doing that. However, it's far easier for you to whine on an internet forum rather than do something useful. That's exactly why you're irrelevant and why nobody should care what you think. You're just another online hater who likes to tear other people's work down.