Debian oldstable looms [LWN.net]

Debian oldstable looms

Posted Jan 6, 2012 10:08 UTC (Fri) by man_ls (guest, #15091)
In reply to: Linux at the end of the world (our 2012 predictions) by jordi
Parent article: Linux at the end of the world (our 2012 predictions)

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 16:04 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!