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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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< nobse> bleh... last night I had a dream... someone NMU'ed vim...
nightmare
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(Score: 2) by zeigerpuppy on Monday April 27 2015, @10:19PM
A useful tip. I'm sticking with Debian as long as there's still a sane
way to use it without systemd. My servers run on Debian wheezy and there's nothing in systemd that would improve their function. I like my init and logs in plain text thanks very much.
Let's hope that the Debian devs keep this option alive (how about as an option in installer - that would be nice). I guess that eventually someone will need to write a translator for systemd type init scripts to keep it consistent.
FreeBSD is not an option for me because it has no functioning Xen