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Today is Debian 8 release day

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Re: Today is Debian 8 release day

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Post by bemused »

dont wont to criticize any of the great & mainly voluntary work of the debian folks, but not quite sure how to interpret these statistics [1]

looks like jessie is going to be the first debian stable to be released with rc-critical issues and not "when it's done"

some of the bugs referred [2] seem quite critical indeed, maybe someone with more insight could comment on this?

[1] http://richardhartmann.de/blog/posts/2015/04/24-Debian_Relea...

[2] https://udd.debian.org/bugs.cgi?release=jessie_and_sid&patch...

Re: Today is Debian 8 release day

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Post by jfaucett »

Awesome. I'd just like to thank the whole Debian team myself - I'm not affiliated so its not a pat on my own back :). I've been running Debian for years now on my servers, on my own personal computers and its a great system, so thanks!

On a side note, just last night I was watching a video of Linus at DebianConf where he talked a bit about solving the linux desktop problem (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Mg5_gxNXTo). Its great that SteamOS is building on top of Debian and I'm exited to see what effects this will have towards making distribution of cross-linux-distro apps easier for developers. I think the fact that valve is on Linux is going to have a big impact on providing distros that non-technical users can easily enjoy.

Anyways, thanks again :)

Re: Today is Debian 8 release day

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Post by xyby »

I have some legacy linux servers that need an update to a new OS. Is Debian 8 a good choice? All I care about is that stuff just works for as many years as possible, gets security updates and does not break.
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