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Linux at the end of the world (our 2012 predictions)

Posted Jan 5, 2012 13:55 UTC (Thu) by jordi (guest, #14325)
Parent article: Linux at the end of the world (our 2012 predictions)

2012 is the year when Debian is supposed to release wheezy. But of course, you never know. :) I missed this prediction from our editor, so here's mine: yes, it will, despite the 900+ release critical bugs currently open.

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Debian oldstable looms

Posted Jan 6, 2012 10:08 UTC (Fri) by man_ls (guest, #15091) [Link] (5 responses)

I am not sure if that makes me happy, as I am running Debian stable "squeeze" on all my machines (excellent release by the way) and I would need to update them or run oldstable for a while. It isn't even one year old, by goodness' sake!

OTOH it would be great to run a current Iceweasel or Chromium, and have some cutting edge packages for things like MongoDB. I am beginning to feel the pressure that Fedora or Ubuntu (non-LTS) users have withstood for so long: upgrade or die.

IMHO, at this point, one major release every two years is fine for Debian.

Debian oldstable looms

Posted Jan 7, 2012 16:00 UTC (Sat) by juliank (guest, #45896) [Link]

> IMHO, at this point, one major release every two years is fine for Debian.

Absolutely. But we somehow need to get those releases synced to the even years first, in order to stay closer to Ubuntu's LTS releases, and longterm supported kernels.

Debian oldstable looms

Posted Jan 7, 2012 16:04 UTC (Sat) by juliank (guest, #45896) [Link] (3 responses)

> OTOH it would be great to run a current Iceweasel or Chromium,
> and have some cutting edge packages for things like MongoDB.

You can find iceweasel 9.0.1 backports on:
http://mozilla.debian.net/

For Chromium, inofficial backports are available as well from a 3rd party person.You could also run Chrome instead, if you don't have a problem with that.

MongoDB is fairly up-to-date in backports:

mongodb | 1:2.0.0-2~bpo60+1 | backports/squeeze | source, amd64, i386

Debian oldstable looms

Posted Jan 7, 2012 22:36 UTC (Sat) by man_ls (guest, #15091) [Link] (2 responses)

Thanks for that! I certainly have a use for Iceweasel 9.0.1. I am already using Chrome at the moment, it is nice and has a Debian repo.

Same for MongoDB: they keep their own repo; even better than Chrome because this one is Free software. By the way, somebody should tell these guys.

Debian oldstable looms

Posted Jan 8, 2012 0:07 UTC (Sun) by juliank (guest, #45896) [Link] (1 responses)

> Same for MongoDB: they keep their own repo;
> even better than Chrome because this one is Free software.
> By the way, somebody should tell these guys.

It's a wiki, you can add it yourself.

Debian oldstable looms

Posted Jan 8, 2012 0:32 UTC (Sun) by man_ls (guest, #15091) [Link]

Silly me, I even had an account there. Done!