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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, Interesting) by hash14 on Sunday April 26 2015, @11:40PM

    by hash14 (1102) on Sunday April 26 2015, @11:40PM (#175527)

    In the software world, you generally live on a spectrum of two extremes: on one side, you can do it quick. On the other, you can do it right. Though I should note before going forward that the biggest reason I'm still on Gentoo instead of FreeBSD is because of KVM - from what I've heard, bhyve isn't quite up to par yet, though if anyone has experience with this, please let me know.

    I think the heads of the BSDs tend to go more for the latter side. Their products don't have quite as many features or the same degree of performance as Linux, but they are stable and well-designed as hell. The fact that the FBI has NDAs with companies to backdoor OpenBSD [arstechnica.com] suggests that OpenBSD is probably doing things right. The fact that no such issue has come forward in the Linux development community might suggest that they really don't need backdoors to hack it.

    On the other hand, Red Hat, driven by their publicly traded corporation-mindset, has lately been sounding off on how they need to support all their customers' wishes and desires. Even worse, they talk like it's the kernel's obligation to provide and maintain these services, rather than their own downstream packages (see the debug fiasco and the kdbus merge which hasn't been going very well either). Their software is increasingly half-baked as they race to get into more fields like cloud services, IaaS, etc. From the outside looking in, it seems that it's a political shithole where the name of the game is to get your product into the market and make money (and to hell whether it's actually good or not).

    In Red Hat's world, it's all about the money (which is why they act and sound so much like MS lately). In the BSD world, it's more about the software and the product. So that's where I think the distinction lies.

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