[sf-lug] Release of Debian (GNU/Linux) Buster Stable

[aaronco36]

Michael P has put forth the [nearly? | definitely?] existential-type 
question 'Whither sf-lug.com' at [01] almost one month to the day 
following Rick M's reverberating expiration-deadline warning for the same 
at [02].

Concerning an unrelated event from another Mailman mailing-list here in 
the Bay Area, Michael P has also fairly-recently announced a Debian Buster 
Release Party set for Wed 2019-07-10; see [03].

Points to note on the impending Debian (GNU/Linux) release :

* According to [04], the Debian 10 Buster-as-Stable Release Date is 
estimated to happen during this upcoming extended Independence Day 
weekend.
* Criteria for Debian testing to become 'frozen' and testing to become the 
new "stable" is at [05] and the current snapshot of Release-critical (RC) 
bugs delaying the stable release is at [06].
* Another reminder of the Debian Project's perpetual "three releases in 
active maintenance" is at [07] and further explanatory and historical 
details of these "three releases in active maintenance" is at [08].
* New features of Buster-as-stable are listed and described within [09] 
and within [10].
* For those who wish to install Buster before the the stable version is 
"officially" released this weekend and wish as well to make sure they have 
sufficient firmware/drivers to support their machines, the latest non-free 
'firmware-testing-amd64-i386-netinst' weekly build for both amd64(64bit) 
and i386(32bit) machines is available via [11].
* Having already successfully installed this non-official pre-stable 
"release" [11] onto both amd64 and i386 machines, I myself have noticed at 
least one of the effects of the change(s) related to Buster's 'util-linux' 
[12].

One of the Debian mirror sites is Cal's OCF computer lab [13]; physically 
located about a 15min (~0.8mi) slightly uphill walk Southeast from 
Berkeley's Triple Rock Brewery location [14] of the B.A.D.'s Buster 
Release Party that Michael P has previously announced at [03].
Would tentatively hazard a guess that Cal's _Open_ Computer Facility lab 
consisting of "29 workstations running Debian Linux" will generally be 
kept _Closed_ to non-Cal and/or non-identified visitors with *very* 
limited exceptions at best.

Also cannot help noting from the Cal OCF lab's list of mirrored distros at 
[15] that _no_ other systemd-free distros are currently available other 
than perhaps FreeBSD [16] and OpenBSD [17] :-\.
((Yeah, we've all been through this "systemd sucks" path before through at 
least the past thread starting at [18] from within the last 1/2 year or 
so.))

Besides the Buster-as-Stable release announcement from Distrowatch [19] 
and from the FrontPage of the Debian Wiki [20], I'm hopeful that Bobbie S 
and/or others will also make the similar release announcement here to the 
SF-LUG mailing-list sometime before/during this Sunday's "Mageia-leaning" 
meeting ;-> held at Cafe Enchante [21].

Hope that everyone has or will have had a great Fourth of July! :-)
-A


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References
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[01]http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2019q3/014230.html
[02]http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2019q2/014155.html
[03]http://bad.debian.net/pipermail/bad/2019-June/003836.html
[04]https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Debian-10.0-Buster-Release-Date
[05]https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ch-ftparchives#s-frozen
[06]https://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/
[07]https://www.debian.org/releases/
[08]https://wiki.debian.org/DebianReleases
[09]https://wiki.debian.org/NewInBuster
[10]https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/amd64/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html
[11]https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/weekly-builds/multi-arch/
[12]https://packages.debian.org/source/buster/util-linux
[13]https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/docs/services/lab/
[14]http://www.triplerock.com/
[15]https://mirrors.ocf.berkeley.edu/
[16]https://mirrors.ocf.berkeley.edu/freebsd/
[17]https://mirrors.ocf.berkeley.edu/openbsd/
[18]http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2019q1/013689.html
[19]https://distrowatch.com/
[20]https://wiki.debian.org/
[21]http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2019q3/014228.html
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aaronco36 at sdf.org
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