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Follow the Debian 8 "Jessie" Release Activity in Realtime

posted by martyb on Sunday April 26 2015, @06:48PM   Printer-friendly
from the unbridled-enthusiasm dept.

Aroused For Debian 8 "Jessie" reports:

Debian 8 "Jessie" was released on 25 Apr. A link to the Debian release page shows the changes and you can follow the release in 'real-time' should you desire to do so.

This release will be supported for 5 years and includes "improvements" to the UEFI software (both 32- and 64-bit) introduced in the previous version, "Wheezy". It also is the first release to use systemd as default init system replacing the earlier sysvinit, which is still available in the repos should you wish to revert the change. What effects such a change might have on the remainder of the system is not clear. Improvements to the support of Debian software include the ability to browse and search all source code distributed in the latest release.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday April 26 2015, @09:39PM

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Sunday April 26 2015, @09:39PM (#175486) Journal

    I think it's pretty clear that the anon was sharing heavy sarcasm rather than a "slashvertisement".

    That may be enough reason not to run it or run it as is, but the anon's beef might be legitimate. With the changes to the sarcasm heavy summary, it looks like the anon could actually be supporting Debian (although the name still gives it away).

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  • (Score: 2) by urza9814 on Monday April 27 2015, @05:56PM

    by urza9814 (3954) on Monday April 27 2015, @05:56PM (#175785) Journal

    I think it's pretty clear that the anon was sharing heavy sarcasm rather than a "slashvertisement".

    That may be enough reason not to run it or run it as is, but the anon's beef might be legitimate. With the changes to the sarcasm heavy summary, it looks like the anon could actually be supporting Debian (although the name still gives it away).

    From the snippet the anon posted of their original submission I didn't get any hint of sarcasm. It reads like a press release or an advertisement. Maybe the byline gives it away a bit, but I can't be the only one who generally ignores those.

    And if it WAS intended to be sarcastic, that only makes the editing *more* necessary. This isn't The Onion and it's not April 1st. Too much opinion in a summary is bad enough, but sarcasm is just plain toxic.