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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?
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
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
That makes two things that brings out the anon trolls in droves: Net neutrality and Systemd.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
Complaining shaming is sad.
I comment occasionally so that I can mod others -1 overrated or -1 offtopic.
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!
We all know the most popular Linux distro is a 5 year old version of Android.
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Yep, confused people were , are and will be a major problem. Not just with Debian.
You can solve your systemd infection here
ftp://linuxmafia.com/kb/Debian...
Another day closer to redwood heaven
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."
Almost everyone who runs a production GNU/Linux system in 2017 runs systemd. If it were even 1% as bad as the systemd trolls claim, GNU/Linux on the server would be radically losing marketshare to FreeBSD and even Windows. It isn't.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
If indeed it was just 17 lines of code that didn't work they might have a point. It's not so hard to fix 17 lines of code. In fact the reason we like 1200 lines of code is because we can fix it.
The reason we don't like those 17 lines of code is they are really 1,139,536 lines of code hiding behind 17 lines of configuration. Worse it's not just 1 million lines of simple C, but multiple processes communicating through a horrid RPC system that makes the entire thing utterly opaque.
I didn't think there could be anything that could make me pine for the days I could fix a problem just debugging 1200 written in one of the worst programming languages on the planet (shell script) - but bless his black little heart, Lennart has managed to prove to me I was wrong.