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Debian Wheezy Now Has Less Than 100 Critical Bugs
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Last edited by Sidicas; 22 March 2013, 08:02 AM.
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Originally posted by Sonadow View PostFor certain packages it does matter.
Debian's testing, unstable and experimental repositories only carry Mesa 8 while virtually all other distributions are already on Mesa 9, and Mesa 9 is not even available in their backports. And that is just 1 example.
I think all the big Debian packages are collectively maintained, so it should be possible to join the team and push Mesa 9 packaging to the Debian's git repos, which are used as staging areas for packaging, in order to get it ready for wheezy-backports.. I'm still waiting for the approval to join the collab-maint team though , I guess the people who handle that are also busy squashing RC bugs in other software or working on other release related things..
Mesa 9 is absolutely critical if you're running Steam on open source drivers . It's also a PITA to compile for steam because you need a 32-bit Mesa 9 to go with the 32-bit Steam which means if you're amd64, you need to set up multi-arch and installing a lot of i386 dev packages just to get it compiled.. At least when you're done, you can run Steam with Mesa 9 and all your other apps can keep using Mesa 8.0.5 with the proven stability .Last edited by Sidicas; 22 March 2013, 08:14 AM.
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Debian's testing, unstable and experimental repositories only carry Mesa 8 while virtually all other distributions are already on Mesa 9, and Mesa 9 is not even available in their backports. And that is just 1 example.
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Originally posted by oleid View PostYes, you're right when it comes to drivers.
For everything else, I don't see the big deal really. Debian stable is supposed to be stable, and it is. I use Squeeze (current stable) at work, and I haven't had a crash in over 2 years. With the exception of the Network Manager plasmoid for KDE which is flaky, no single app has crashed, nothing broke after an update, everything has been rock solid.
That's what I need on a work machine. It still has KDE 4.4, but it does the job, and it's stable stable stable. Latest Firefox is available through backports, most of the other stuff like GCC does not really need updating every month. I see what Debian are doing and I really appreciate it. I don't think that there is a more stable platform for serious work out there. Perhaps RHEL or SUSE EL, but I wouldn't bet on that either!
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Originally posted by CthuIhux View PostThat is a simple way to speed up the coming release for Debian, forget about the useless kFreeBSD port. No one will use it and it's draining tonnes of precious resources from the project.
Also, kick those how suggested, starting and work on the kFreeBSD port from Debian. The project will run much better without them. Seriously.
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Originally posted by CthuIhux View PostThat is a simple way to speed up the coming release for Debian, forget about the useless kFreeBSD port. No one will use it and it's draining tonnes of precious resources from the project.
Also, kick those how suggested, starting and work on the kFreeBSD port from Debian. The project will run much better without them. Seriously.
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Originally posted by TestingTe View PostDebian has a kFreeBSD port?! I gotta look into that! THX!!
So it's not FreeBSD at all. Just the kernel.
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Originally posted by uid313 View PostNo /usr/ merge?
Boring that new fresh Wheezy will use old GNOME 3.4, KDE 4.8, and Xfce 4.8.
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