In prepping for the Debian 9.0 release in a few days, developers have uploaded Debian Installer Stretch RC5 that also serves as the installer's final release candidate.
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The fourth release candidate of the installer for the upcoming Debian 9.0 "Stretch" release is now available.
Debian 9.0 now has an official release date.
Devuan 1.0 is now officially available, the fork of Debian aiming for "init freedom" and shipping without systemd.
While waiting for the upcoming Debian 9.0 "Stretch" release, Debian 8.8 has shipped this weekend as the latest stable update.
Just a short time after last month's Devuan 1.0 RC1 debut, the second release candidate of this systemd-free version of Debian is now available.
With Debian 9.0 not being far away from releasing, the Debian CD Images Team has issued an update over their fundamental changes happening for this "Stretch" cycle.
Debian 9.0 "Stretch" has seen UEFI Secure Boot support no longer being considered a release blocker but is now just a stretch goal for this upcoming release.
Debian developers continue making progress with a -- currently unofficial -- port of their Linux operating system to RISC-V.
The first release candidate is now available for Devuan, the fork of Debian that rids the system of systemd.
Debian developer Dmitry Bogatov was arrested by Russian authorities for running a Tor exit node and accused of supporting terrorism.
Chris Lamb has unseated Mehdi Dogguy as the next Debian Project Leader.
Debian developers are preparing for the final phase of the development freeze on Debian 9.0 "Stretch" and it's looking like the official release might not be too far out.
The third release candidate to Debian Installer for 9.0 "Stretch" is now available for testing.
LMDE, the Linux Mint Debian Edition that's using Debian GNU/Linux as a base in place of Ubuntu, has out new ISO images.
Debian project leader Mehdi Dogguy has written a status update concerning the work going on for the first two months of 2017.
Debian 9.0 "Stretch" is now frozen for its anticipated release later this year.
The second release candidate to the Debian Installer for the upcoming Debian 9.0 "Stretch" release is now available.
Debian Linux is now available for running on NVIDIA's Jetson TX1 developer board powered by their Tegra X1 SoC.
The Debian Installer is getting ready for the 9.0 "Stretch" release.
For those riding Debian 8 "Jessie" until the stable debut of Debian 9 "Stretch", Debian 8.7 is available this weekend.
The soft freeze is now upon us for Debian 9.0 "Stretch" while the full freeze will happen in February.
Yesterday I published Skylake Iris Pro Graphics benchmarks on Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, Antergos, and Clear Linux using a Skull Canyon NUC. That was fun but then I decided to ring in the new year by running even more benchmarks, so if you're curious how the Debian 9 "testing" performance fits among these other distributions, here are those results.
Debian developers are currently weighing the prospects of enabling automatic updates on new Debian GNU/Linux installations by default.
Two days ago we brought up Devuan, the systemd-free fork of Debian turned two years old, and now it seems they are celebrating the anniversary by the release of the second beta.
Devuan, the Debian fork that frees the system of systemd, is now two years old.
Out this weekend is the eighth alpha release of the Debian Installer for the upcoming Debian 9.0 "Stretch" release due out in 2017.
Debian 9 is stepping closer to being released with having hit the transition freeze this weekend. No new library transitions or package transitions on a large-scale will be permitted.
The Debian Release Team has decided upon the official release architectures for next year's Debian 9.0 "Stretch" release.
APT 1.3 is now available as the newest version of this Debian command-line package manager.
The latest installment of Debian "Jessie" is now available.
GCC 6.1.1 is now the default compiler for Debian unstable as the developers work to get this major GNU Compiler Collection update ready for the next Debian release.
Ubuntu and Debian (and thus other Debian-based distributions too) have abandoned the xf86-video-intel X.Org driver for all recent generations of Intel graphics hardware and instead makes use of the xf86-video-modesetting generic driver in its place.
Started a few years back was Debian's Long-Term Support (LTS) project whereby releases were given five years of security support and this would also allow users to skip a release. This project, which is financed by sponsors, continues to make progress and provide for a more secure and longer-supported Debian.
Here is the latest look at the performance of Debian GNU/Linux 8.5 vs. Debian Testing on the same system for showing how the performance is looking for Debian 9 "Stretch" ahead of its release next year.
DebConf 16 is wrapping up as Debian's annual conference, which this year is being held in Cape Town. For those not in South Africa, most of the session videos have been uploaded.
At the end of last year was the untimely passing of Ian Murdock, the founder of Debian who went on to work for Sun Microsystems during the Project Indiana days and then was employed by Docker. Details of Ian's passing have remained quite scarce besides it being reported as a suicide following a sporadic Twitter rant just before his death. New details have now come to light.
Debian developer Michael Biebl has presented a status update on systemd in Debian at this week's DebConf 16 event in Cape Town, South Africa.
Taking place this week in Cape Town, South Africa is DebConf 16. One of the interesting bits of information out of that event is the codename for Stretch's successor.
The seventh alpha release of the Debian Installer for Stretch is now available.
Matthias Klose has provided an update concerning plans for having GCC 6 become the default compiler of Debian 9.0 "Stretch."
Debian updated their stable and old-stable releases this weekend.
The sixth alpha release of the Debian Installer for the upcoming "Stretch" release is now available.
The latest Linux distribution seeing ZFS file-system packages officially added is none other than Debian.
For those using Raspberry Pi's Debian-based operating system, a major update is available this Friday morning for Raspbian.
With having done clean installs of Debian 8.4 and Debian testing (Stretch) the past few days on the same box, here are some fresh comparison numbers for your viewing pleasure.
Those running any old VIA C3, AMD K5/K6, or original Intel Pentium CPUs, you'll be losing your Debian support past the current stable (Jessie) series.
For those systemd haters that are out there, the beta of Devuan has been released as a spin of Debian Jessie that's free of systemd.
The Debian community has come out today with Debian GNU/Linux 7.10 and Debian GNU/Linux 8.4.
It's looking incredibly likely that ownCloud, the popular open-source project for easily setting up your own private cloud for file storage, will not be available as Debian packages with next year's 9.0 Stretch release.
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