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

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: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 26 2015, @10:46PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 26 2015, @10:46PM (#175513)

    By "not the only choice", what you're basically saying is that anyone who wants to use Debian 8 without systemd basically needs to rebuild core components of Debian by hand. That defeats the whole purpose of using a distro.

    If I want a hamburger, it would be really dumb to buy a pizza, and then waste an inordinate amount of time twisting the bread into a hamburger bun shape, wiping away the tomato sauce, picking out the pepperoni, and then adding beef and lettuce.

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 27 2015, @01:04AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 27 2015, @01:04AM (#175543)

    I wonder what a debian dev thinks of your kind, oh here it is:

    "For some reason the men in the Linux community who hate women the most seem to have taken a dislike to systemd"
    ...
    "MikeeUSA is an evil person who hates systemd [6]. This isn’t any sort of evidence that systemd is great (I’m sure that evil people make reasonable choices about software on occasion). But it is a significant factor in support for non-systemd variants of Debian (and other Linux distributions). Decent people don’t want to be associated with people like MikeeUSA, the fact that the anti-systemd people seem happy to associate with him isn’t going to help their cause."

    http://etbe.coker.com.au/2015/04/26/anti-systemd-people/ [coker.com.au]

    That is what debian thinks of you.

  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 27 2015, @02:17AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 27 2015, @02:17AM (#175555)

    Uh, no, you just install a different init package.

    sudo apt-get install sysvinit-core

    Will install the old init system instead of SystemD.

    Debian didn't eliminate the old init system, it's just not recommended. If you really desperately want to avoid installing any packages with the string "systemd" in the name, you can use this solution [debian.org].