Debian 9.2 released
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Debian 9.2 released
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Re: Debian 9.2 released
#2I have the impression that Jessie came out recently. Is time speeding up?
Meanwhile I’m happy on CentOS 7 since many years now.
Re: Debian 9.2 released
#3I have the impression that Jessie came out recently. Is time speeding up? Meanwhile I’m happy on CentOS 7 since many years now.
Jessie was released in April 2015 - Debian Stable releases are usually two years apart. CentOS 7.0 was released a bit less than a year before it (July 2014).
Jessie will still be supported until June 2018 by the official security team, and until 2020 by the Debian LTS project.
Re: Debian 9.2 released
#4When I run linux on servers, I always choose Debian. It is the best distro IMO. Glad to see that the project is still going as strong as ever!
Re: Debian 9.2 released
#5A curious fact is that Debian name their releases after Toy Story characters.
Debian experimental is permanently named "sid" (the kid that breaks toys) and "stretch" (Debian 9) is a rubber octopus from Toy Story 3.
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/project-history/ch-releas...
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianUnstable#Which_Toy_Story_chara...
Other curious fact about Debian, is that there are 2 logos: the open use one, and the restricted use one. The restricted use one is a less known and includes a bottle.
Re: Debian 9.2 released
#6I have the impression that Jessie came out recently. Is time speeding up? Meanwhile I’m happy on CentOS 7 since many years now.
> Is time speeding up?
I ask myself that every day, certainly seems like it getting older ;-)
On a more serious note: It’s great that Linux is now sufficiently mature that even a 3 year old release is perfectly adequate and can do pretty much whatever you need. Maybe I’m misremembering here, but it didn’t always used to be like that.
Re: Debian 9.2 released
#7When I run linux on servers, I always choose Debian. It is the best distro IMO. Glad to see that the project is still going as strong as ever!
As someone who has been choosing CentOS for the same purpose, what would be some reasons for me to switch off the top of your head?
Re: Debian 9.2 released
#8When I run linux on servers, I always choose Debian. It is the best distro IMO. Glad to see that the project is still going as strong as ever!
As someone who has been choosing CentOS for the same purpose, what would be some reasons for me to switch off the top of your head?
As someone who hasn't used CentOS much, when I've had to use it I've found the package selection (packages/versions) to be lacking, requiring me to use one of the countless 3rd party repos that may or may not contain what I need
Re: Debian 9.2 released
#9A curious fact is that Debian name their releases after Toy Story characters. Debian experimental is permanently named "sid" (the kid that breaks toys) and "stretch" (Debian 9) is a rubber octopus from Toy Story 3. https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/project-history/ch-releas... https://wiki.debian.org/DebianUnstable#Which_Toy_Story_chara... Other curious fact about Debian, is that there are 2 logos: the open use one,…
sid == unstable
Re: Debian 9.2 released
#10When I run linux on servers, I always choose Debian. It is the best distro IMO. Glad to see that the project is still going as strong as ever!
As someone who has been choosing CentOS for the same purpose, what would be some reasons for me to switch off the top of your head?
Can't really come up with any reason, if you're happy with CentOS you should probably keep using CentOS.
I just started out with Ubuntu but realised that Debian seems to have more control over their packages and have a much more stable ecosystem which I value. Also .deb packages always seem to be available for basically any software distributed for linux and why make life hard?