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

Wed Jul 3 09:06:15 PDT 2019

On 7/3/19 8:38 AM, aaronco36 wrote:
> 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.))

     Well add a few more to that systemd free distros, PCLinuxOS64 
2019.06, then take a look at the <www.distrowatch.com> and you might be 
able to do a little
search there or here: 
<http://without-systemd.org/wiki/index.php/Alternatives_to_systemd>.

     bliss
>
> 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
> ============================================================
> [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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