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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: 2) by Marand on Monday April 27 2015, @03:17AM

    by Marand (1081) on Monday April 27 2015, @03:17AM (#175566) Journal

    MikeeUSA - is that you?

    I saw at least two AC remarks about gpcslots2 being rejected from Debian (while omitting that it's a badly coded pile of shit that's full of asshole "easter eggs" and unsuitable for inclusion in any distro), and one about forking Xonotic, both common things MikeeUSA bitches about. It's clear that he's either posting here again or somebody thinks it's fun to play at being MikeeUSA for trolling purposes.

    For what it's worth, he probably doesn't even have any real objection to systemd, he's just using it as another way to attack Debian because he's deranged and decided long ago to target it for whatever crazy-fuck reason he really has. It's the same thing that happened when there was that silly wine bug in testing and both SN and Slashdot got hit with AC submissions slamming the distro for it (the testing cycle reveals and fixes bugs. OMG!), along with a slew of other trivial gripes. Every time, he showed up to push his agenda in the comments if the submissions got accepted.

    Unfortunately, all he's managed to do so far is convince the Debian folks that anybody that doesn't approve of the move to implement systemd for Jessie is a Mikee apologist and supporter, such as the remark made in this post by Russell Coker [coker.com.au]. If Mikee's real goal was to get legitimate anti-systemd sentiment ignored because everyone's more focused on his attention-grabbing bullshit, he did a great job.

    Too late for it to matter (not that it ever did), but my thought on it is that Jessie should have defaulted to sysvinit + systemd-shim for the purpose of appeasing the desktop components, with intent to move to systemd-init for the next stable release. More testing time, more chance to squash the edge case problems, and a more gradual migration. Maybe with an installer option to use systemd-init. The switch felt rushed, with political motives overriding the generally conservative and cautious migrations Debian usually favours.

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 27 2015, @07:51PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 27 2015, @07:51PM (#175839)

    >(while omitting that it's a badly coded pile of shit that's full of asshole "easter eggs" and unsuitable for inclusion in any distro)

    Tell us about these easter eggs that the game is "full" of.
    Tell us why, if a game uses "If" statements rather than switch statements while waiting for user input, it is "badly coded and should be kept out of distros".
    Tell us about other textconsole casino games for Nix not by the author :)

    No, The reason, you FUCKING piece of shit (BTW: on of your kind was MURDERED in Pakistan yesterday. THANK GOD (of deuteronomy, not your pro-feminist cuck)), exclude this game
    is because you do not like the opinions of the author. No other reason. When you people are murdered it is wonderful. WONDERFUL. Thanks to Putin some years ago also
    for killing one of your feminist reporter women in russia.

    >Systemd
    Systemd is garbage. It is overly complex crap that often runs at 100pct cpu (just like pulse audio even now!) and does the same thing the simpler sysv or sinit does: start up a few programs such as X.
    It is also something similar to a rotting stump: lots of holes to burrow into if one so chooses.
    (The kernel is somewhat similar, but what can you do: ask the grsec / PaX team)

    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Marand on Tuesday April 28 2015, @03:21AM

      by Marand (1081) on Tuesday April 28 2015, @03:21AM (#175948) Journal

      Tell us about these easter eggs that the game is "full" of.
      Tell us why, if a game uses "If" statements rather than switch statements while waiting for user input, it is "badly coded and should be kept out of distros".

      I already covered that here [soylentnews.org] (for anyone interested in a brief code examination) and see no reason to do so again. You're a deranged crackpot with some of the worst code I've had the misfortune of reading -- and I've been abusing Perl since the 90s.

      As for the rest of your comment, thanks for confirming the "deranged lunatic" remarks I've made with your psychotic ranting. You clearly know fuck-all about me, except for knowing that I think your gpcslots software is rubbish, so the rest of your remark is just lunatic ranting and a desire for my harm based solely on your own delusional fantasies of what you think I'm like.

      You need a white jacket and a padded cell, seriously. I'm amazed you haven't been committed to an asylum already.

      • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 28 2015, @03:54AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 28 2015, @03:54AM (#175953)

        >You need a white jacket and a padded cell, seriously. I'm amazed you haven't been committed to an asylum already.

        This isn't soviet russia yet, but you SJWs are working hard to make free thought and free speech illegal: it allready is in every european cuntry you control.

        What you think about this supposed software (lol, a perlscript qualifying as software) does not matter.
        What matters is the fact that it does what nothing else does, is no worse than just about any other debian-included text console game, and was rejected because the author wasn't an SJW like yourself.

        Don't worry, this may come to blows though. Russia has decided to be opposed to SJWism and to physically fight your forces wherever they appear, there may yet be a world war and your kind might be removed from your perch.