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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 CoolHand on Monday April 27 2015, @11:44AM

    by CoolHand (438) on Monday April 27 2015, @11:44AM (#175655) Journal

    My editorial 2 cents:
    I saw the original submission in the queue, and noted in our editors notes that it was full of sarcasm, and would never have put it out as submitted (so it would have been really late. So, the only way it would have actually been published is if was rewritten. Most submitters don't submit a story that is trying to sarcastically slam others, so still would like credit even with a heavy re-write. In this case, obviously, the story's intent was changed, and it may have been better to have changed that "reports" to "inspired" or something along those lines. Note that this happened during a very low spot in the submissions queue on a weekend when our volunteer editors have real lives to lead. Also, I don't think it's our intent to beat /. to stories at all. I don't look at that site, let alone think, "Wow, they've just published a story similar to ours, I must rush it out right now!" I don't know, but I bet that we run many stories that they run later, or not at all. If that is the case, then we would be just as much in the "lead" as they...

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