[sf-lug] Debian 12.0 'bookworm' released as 'Stable'

[aaronco36]

Debian 12.0 'bookworm' released as 'Stable'

Extensively quoting from Debian.org's release announcement 'Debian 12 
"bookworm" released'[01]:
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June 10th, 2023

After 1 year, 9 months, and 28 days of development, the Debian project is 
proud to present its new stable version 12 (code name "bookworm").

"bookworm" will be supported for the next 5 years thanks to the combined 
work of the Debian Security team and the Debian Long Term Support team.

Following the 2022 General Resolution about non-free firmware, we have 
introduced a new archive area making it possible to separate non-free 
firmware from the other non-free packages:
* non-free-firmware
Most non-free firmware packages have been moved from non-free to 
non-free-firmware. This separation makes it possible to build a variety of 
official installation images.

Debian 12 "bookworm" ships with several desktop environments, such as:
* Gnome 43,
* KDE Plasma 5.27,
* LXDE 11,
* LXQt 1.2.0,
* MATE 1.26,
* Xfce 4.18

This release contains over 11,089 new packages for a total count of 64,419 
packages, while over 6,296 packages have been removed as "obsolete". 
43,254 packages were updated in this release. The overall disk usage for 
"bookworm" is 365,016,420 kB (365 GB), and is made up of 1,341,564,204 
lines of code.
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Further related links:
- Debian.org's 'Debian bookworm Release Information' link[02]
- Debian.org's 'Downloading Debian CD/DVD images via HTTP/FTP' link[03]
- The ocf.berkeley.edu debian-cd mirror here[04] is perhaps closest to the
   current Berkeley location where am virtually participating in today's
   BerkeleyLUG meetup[05].
- Debian.org's 'Downloading Debian CD images with jigdo' (Jigsaw Download)
   link[06]
- The ocf.berkeley.edu jigdo-cd mirror link for amd64[07] perhaps closest
   to the current Berkeley location where am virtually participating in
   today's BerkeleyLUG meetup[05]

Instead of downloading a fuller official Debian 12 'bookworm' ISO via one 
of the above means, am myself rather _upgrading_ current 'testing' and 
'bullseye' installations in order to save bandwidth on the various 
download mirrors.

- Debian.org's official and more complete 'Chapter 4. Upgrades from Debian
   11 (bullseye)'is at [08]
- Debian's top-level Wiki site is [09]
- the Debian Wiki's 'DebianBookworm' is at [10] with less-complete upgrade
   instructions that at [08]
- the Debian Wiki's 'DebianUpgrade' page is at [11] with similarly
   less-complete than at [08]
- the Debian Wiki's 'DebianInstall' page is at [12]
- the Debian Wiki's 'DebianStability' is at [13] with its hopefully-heeded
   caution " YMMV. Caveat emptor. As the saying goes, "If it breaks, you
   get to keep both pieces." ;-) "

As appropriately directed to Rick M, my own feeble excuse is petty 
_Procrastination_ for not yet carrying out his excellent steps in 'Debian 
8 "Jessie" OpenRC Conversion'[14] in weaning both Debian 'bullseye' and 
'bookworm' as much as possible away from systemd init and its 
dependencies.  My humble apologies :-\

-Aaron


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References/Excerpts
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[01]https://www.debian.org/News/2023/20230610
[02]https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/
[03]https://www.debian.org/CD/http-ftp/
[04]https://mirrors.ocf.berkeley.edu/debian-cd/
[05]https://meet.jit.si/BerkeleyLUG
[06]https://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/
[07]https://mirrors.ocf.berkeley.edu/debian-cd/current/amd64/jigdo-cd/
[08]https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html
[09]https://wiki.debian.org/
[10]https://wiki.debian.org/DebianBookworm
[11]https://wiki.debian.org/DebianUpgrade
[12]https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstall
[13]https://wiki.debian.org/DebianStability
[14]http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Debian/openrc-conversion.html
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