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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 gallondr00nk on Wednesday May 07 2014, @01:04PM
One of the major upsides to Squeeze is that it's one of the only supported releases to still use Mesa 7, specifically Mesa 7.6. Since Trident DRI support got pulled in Mesa 7.7, and a lot of older DRI1 cards got pulled in Mesa 8, the alternative in other distributions often means very, very slow software rendering. You can imagine the performance hit on a Pentium III. It needs all the help it can get :)
This keeps my old ThinkPads and Satellite Pro working with hardware acceleration another few years.