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Today is Debian 8 release day
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Re: Today is Debian 8 release day
#22That's not an official release statement. It's a month old mail stating Debian targeted today as a release date for Debian 8 (edit: latest news item in the list).
Mailing? It links to a mailing. But the page is release.debian.org - do you have any more authoritative source for a different release date?
Also on identi.ca they wrote today:
"FTP/Release teams' work is complete; once CD testing is complete, the mirrors will be updated and jessie will be released!"
Re: Today is Debian 8 release day
#23Just on the side note. This was announced on microsoft website about them celebrating about Debian release.
http://openness.microsoft.com/blog/2015/04/21/microsoft-debi...
Re: Today is Debian 8 release day
#24dont 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/201…
I hope stable release team accepts fixes to some of those issues into later updates.
Re: Today is Debian 8 release day
#25I 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.
What are your servers running now? Is there an upgrade path from whatever Linux it is? Do you have a lot of custom configurations? Debian is widely regarded and typically provides two to three years update support for a given code name (e.g. Wheezy or Jessie). There is a proposal for providing Long Term Support (LTS) for Wheezy as has been done for Squeeze.
I really don't have any custom needs. Any old linux distro will do.
But only 2 to 3 years? That is very short. What would be a good alternative with longer support? There must be market for it I guess. Don't companies simply want to run their stuff as long as possible? Many companies still use Windows XP. And that's 14 years old.
Any major distris that commit to 10 years of support or something?
Re: Today is Debian 8 release day
#26I 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.
Debian 8 has support until 2017.
Ubuntu 1404 LTS has support until 2019.
RHEL 7 has support until 2024 (and Centos).
Re: Today is Debian 8 release day
#27I 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.
> All I care about is that stuff just works for as many years as possible, gets security updates and does not break I would go with FreeBSD or Debian.
Why not do both?
Re: Today is Debian 8 release day
#28I 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.
Debian 8 has support until 2017. Ubuntu 1404 LTS has support until 2019. RHEL 7 has support until 2024 (and Centos).
> Debian 8 has support until 2017
Wow, really? That's nothing! No security updates after that?
> Ubuntu 1404 LTS has support until 2019
That sounds more reasonable. But still a bit short.
> RHEL 7 has support until 2024 (and Centos).
Interesting. Now I understand why I hear "centos" so often lately. So far, I only know Debian based distros. I wonder how much work it would be to switch to one of these two.
Re: Today is Debian 8 release day
#29That's not an official release statement. It's a month old mail stating Debian targeted today as a release date for Debian 8 (edit: latest news item in the list).
Debian Twitter page has also got live coverage
https://twitter.com/debian
Re: Today is Debian 8 release day
#30That's not an official release statement. It's a month old mail stating Debian targeted today as a release date for Debian 8 (edit: latest news item in the list).
Mailing? It links to a mailing. But the page is release.debian.org - do you have any more authoritative source for a different release date? Also on identi.ca they wrote today: "FTP/Release teams' work is complete; once CD testing is complete, the mirrors will be updated and jessie will be released!" https://identi.ca/debian
You linked to a release page that has a series of announcements. The most recent announcement is from March, and also a mailing list. That's all they meant.
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2015/03/msg00...
Today they will make an additional announcement.