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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 fritsd on Monday April 27 2015, @12:14PM

    by fritsd (4586) on Monday April 27 2015, @12:14PM (#175665) Journal

    The way I understand it, is that systemd depends on a Linux-specific kernel feature called "cgroups", a compartmentalization(sp?) of processes.

    The BSD's don't have this, so they can't have systemd.

    Apparently,systemd uses the cgroups feature to determine which running processes are descended from an init service, so that killing or restarting a service becomes much more accurate (if nothing is alive anymore in the cgroup of that service, then it probably is time to restart it, if it is so configured). DISCLAIMER: I have no practical experience with this.

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  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Monday April 27 2015, @10:36PM

    by kaszz (4211) on Monday April 27 2015, @10:36PM (#175885) Journal

    There's something called jail(8) instead. Perhaps not good enough for systemd usage.

    New idea for a license.. "This code cannot be run on a CPU that has been running systemd the last five minutes" ;)
    Or "if( sys.systemd ==1 && random(10) >8 ) { panic("unexplainable panic happened!"); }" :D