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Debian Squeezed in at the Wire

posted by janrinok on Saturday April 19 2014, @01:16AM   Printer-friendly

The Mighty Buzzard writes:

For those of you who thought Debian Stable wasn't stable enough, Michael Larabel over at Phoronix is reporting that Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" is being turned into an LTS release.

Regular security support for Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" was set to end after next month, but now the Debian developers have decided to provide security support for this 2011 Debian Linux release until February 2016 - marking five years since the original Debian 6.0 release.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by jasassin on Saturday April 19 2014, @01:52AM

    by jasassin (3566) <jasassin@gmail.com> on Saturday April 19 2014, @01:52AM (#33264) Homepage Journal

    I just want to say thank you. This is the best distro for my old Radeon HD3450.

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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday April 19 2014, @03:11PM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Saturday April 19 2014, @03:11PM (#33347) Homepage Journal

    If you're brave enough to deal with a rolling release, Arch can cover HD2/3/4K cards and still give you the latest kernel and such. Just add

    [catalyst]
    Server = http://catalyst.wirephire.com/repo/catalyst/$arch [wirephire.com]

    to the top of /etc/pacman.conf, install the catalyst-total-hd234k package, and reboot.

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  • (Score: 2) by Bot on Saturday April 19 2014, @09:13PM

    by Bot (3902) on Saturday April 19 2014, @09:13PM (#33445) Journal

    The fglrx-legacy backported to wheezy works for the hd2400, see
    https://wiki.debian.org/ATIProprietary#AMD_Catalys t_Legacy_13.1 [debian.org]

    The LTS is a good thing, many servers do not need anything more than security upgrades who don't break stuff.

    And I think I will keep wheezy stuff around until systemd either matures or becomes replaceable, whichever happens first. I know little about systemd but when I hear stuff like "we incorporate systemd because we can't split udev easily" a chill runs through my data bus.

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    • (Score: 1) by jasassin on Sunday April 20 2014, @02:05AM

      by jasassin (3566) <jasassin@gmail.com> on Sunday April 20 2014, @02:05AM (#33508) Homepage Journal

      Thanks! I didn't know wheezy had back ported fglrx! Kick ass!!! I might still try the arch dist for fun, but this will be my new Linux distro.

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