Does Debian have the same support for AWS eccentricities that Ubuntu now does?
Debian 9.2 released
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Re: Debian 9.2 released
#112I wish Debian would adopt Ubuntu-like versioning number: "yy.mm". So easy to understand. Another good example is TeXLive, which simply uses "yyyy". Much better.
That wouldn't work. Debian publishes minor updates to older release "branches"; naming those after the date they were released would make it impossible to distinguish the branches. For instance, Debian 9 was released in June 2017, followed by the release of 8.9 the next month as a minor update for users still running Debian 8.
Re: Debian 9.2 released
#113Does Debian have the same support for AWS eccentricities that Ubuntu now does?
Can you elaborate?
Re: Debian 9.2 released
#114A 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,…
Little known: the "experimental" distribution is called "rc-buggy", a pun on "release critical".
Re: Debian 9.2 released
#115A 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,…
> The restricted use one is a less known and includes a bottle.
It indeed is very very rarely used whatsoever these days. Even the "official" CD media (which used to be the only place where it was really seen in the past 10 years) don't really exist anymore.
Re: Debian 9.2 released
#116A 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,…
I always like to point out the other two logos[1][2] that prefaced the buzz lightyears chin logo[3]. [1] http://ianmurdock.debian.net/index.html%3Fp=1880.html [2]see "old logo" at https://www.debian.org/vote/1999 [3] https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81x4CGvFvNL...
I am glad they did not select the chicken logo.
Re: Debian 9.2 released
#117On a tangential note, I don't like how I get served the German version of the site with no obvious way to get the "canonical" one. And then I hate realizing how hard it is to combine support of multiple languages and still making everything transparent and accessible. And also, what a huge effort it is to translate pages to different languages while (I think) almost everyone wants to read the English version.
This is determined by the settings in your browser. If you don't like getting German version as default, then change your browser config. Not only you have links to different languages in the bottom of the site, you can even find a link to document describing how the standards works and how to change the settings in bunch of different browsers: https://www.debian.org/intro/cn
And yet, a bunch of sites including Google don't give a rat's arse about the accept-language http header and do their own thing.
Wherever I travel, I get search results served in that language even though I have my browser consistently configured to want English.
Re: Debian 9.2 released
#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is determined by the settings in your browser. If you don't like getting German version as default, then change your browser config. Not only you have links to different languages in the bottom of the site, you can even find a link to document describing how the standards works and how to change the settings in bunch of different browsers: https://www.debian.org/intro/cn
And yet, a bunch of sites including Google don't give a rat's arse about the accept-language http header and do their own thing. Wherever I travel, I get search results served in that language even though I have my browser consistently configured to want English.
I agree that in general the support might be better, but for me Google works as expected at least in my current location (Czech Republic).
If I set preferred language to Czech I get search form in Czech. After changing settings to English I get English search form (with link to the Czech version underneath the search bar). Just for fun I have also tried Dutch and it seems to work as well (there are some foreign words, but I don't speak Dutch so it might as well be Klingon).
Tested in Firefox and in newly opened private Window, so logon / previous sessions wouldn't affect the results.
Re: Debian 9.2 released
#119Does Debian have the same support for AWS eccentricities that Ubuntu now does?
Can you elaborate?
Up until March of this year, the Ubuntu kernel was not tuned for AWS. This included not having support for Elastic Network Adapter, which limited network speeds when compared to Amazon Linux.
See here: https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/04/05/ubuntu-on-aws-gets-se...
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#120Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, if it didn't get wrecked every other upgrade, I'd probably still be on Ubuntu. But talking to the Ubuntu Washington people this past weekend, its still an ongoing problem. Comparatively, here I am running Stretch when I started with Wheezy years ago!
On the server the only upgrade issues I've had are things like apache configs breaking when moving from 2.2 to 2.4, or php (from 5 to 7), which happened when upgrading 14.04->16.04. Not sure how redhat/centos/etc would have prevented that. Likewise a few of our custom system management packages need tweaking when new versions come out, but aside from that no problems with 1200+ servers.
Uhh, I'm talking about desktop Ubuntu, not server installs where you don't have pulse, xorg, a DE and a shedload of other software. Getting a server upgrade right shouldn't be too hard, but when you add on another thousand packages or so, it makes the upgrade process much more likely to have breakage.