Debian 11 "Bullseye" Installer RC2 Released

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Debian 11 "Bullseye" Installer RC2 Released

The second release candidate of the Debian Installer for the upcoming 11.0 "Bullseye" release is now available for testing...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Debian-11-Installer-RC2-Release

[Anvil]

probably wise that they wait for Grub2-2.06 an wait for Firefox an Thunderbird 91 ESR an get that in the final Debian 11 release

[jery]

Firefox ESR is provided to the stable branch (as is Chromium).
I don't know for Thunderbird.

[gojul]

probably wise that they wait for Grub2-2.06 an wait for Firefox an Thunderbird 91 ESR an get that in the final Debian 11 release

Not really, for buster they did release shortly before firefox 68esr if I recall well. And then they released 68esr. Basically they release the ESR version when the previous ESR release becomes unsupported, so probably in something like 4 months.

Firefox ESR is provided to the stable branch (as is Chromium).
I don't know for Thunderbird.

Thunderbird is based on the ESR branch anyway

[piorunz]

Fantastic. Can't wait for 11 release.

[Duff~]

But I want it now

[ehansin]

I like to install different server versions of some of the more mainstream distros in VirtualBox to get a feel of things, gives me some multi-distro exposure. I obviously know that Ubuntu is built on Debian roots. But a few releases ago I noticed changes in the Ubuntu server edition (assume the same for desktop.) I kind of know the answer, but Ubuntu started packaging core components as Snaps, right? Does anyone recall what release this started appearing? When I watch the boot process in the console, it seems to jump all over the place as well. Figure it must be related. Anyway, congrats to Debian on an upcoming release.