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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 NoMaster on Sunday April 26 2015, @11:28PM

    by NoMaster (3543) on Sunday April 26 2015, @11:28PM (#175521)

    Perhaps then, in those cases where you've heavily edited or re-written the original submission to substantially change its approach, it would be better to make it clear in the summary that the article was 'inspired by ...'?

    Perhaps something like "xxxxxxx brought to our attention" or "as suggested by xxxxxxx", rather than claiming "xxxxxxx reports"?

    (And to be honest, if the original submission posted above is correct, I don't see that you've gained anything by changing it - it was always going to be the usual pointless shitstorm of anti-SystemD comments anyway...)

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 27 2015, @12:07AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 27 2015, @12:07AM (#175534)

    Odd... now that I've read the editor's position on this it seems like a good call: the article is terse while retaining some information without giving away any personal biases on the systemd debacle. Also, not all our sarcasm meters are calibrated similarly (even I thought the original summary was an advert).

    The article was modified heavily, yes, but the source should still be cited or else we'll have people who go "waah I submitted that story but didn't get any credit for it" (give credit to where it's due).

    The source should've been worded in a different way, or at least the original submission quoted and the editor's summary posted as an Editorial note.