Awesome. I'd just like to thank the whole Debian team myself - I'm not affiliated so its not a pat on my own back :). I've been running Debian for years now on my servers, on my own personal computers and its a great system, so thanks!<p>On a side note, just last night I was watching a video of Linus at DebianConf where he talked a bit about solving the linux desktop problem (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Mg5_gxNXTo" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Mg5_gxNXTo</a>). Its great that SteamOS is building on top of Debian and I'm exited to see what effects this will have towards making distribution of cross-linux-distro apps easier for developers. I think the fact that valve is on Linux is going to have a big impact on providing distros that non-technical users can easily enjoy.<p>Anyways, thanks again :)
dont wont to criticize any of the great & mainly voluntary work of the debian folks, but not quite sure how to interpret these statistics [1]<p>looks like jessie is going to be the first debian stable to be released with rc-critical issues and not "when it's done"<p>some of the bugs referred [2] seem quite critical indeed, maybe someone with more insight could comment on this?<p>[1] <a href="http://richardhartmann.de/blog/posts/2015/04/24-Debian_Release_Critical_Bug_report_for_Week_17/" rel="nofollow">http://richardhartmann.de/blog/posts/2015/04/24-Debian_Relea...</a><p>[2] <a href="https://udd.debian.org/bugs.cgi?release=jessie_and_sid&patch=ign&merged=ign&done=ign&fnewerval=7&rc=1&sortby=id&sorto=asc&ctags=1&ctags=1&cdeferred=1&keypackages=only&chints=1&cdeferred=1&crttags=1#results" rel="nofollow">https://udd.debian.org/bugs.cgi?release=jessie_and_sid&patch...</a>
As a long time Debian user in a professional environment I was really excited to see that Debian 8 finally added proper SELinux policies - however my colleagues and I were very disappointed to see that these (although working without noticeable issue) were dropped at the last minute with no explanation.<p>Several people in the community have asked what happened to the packages but had no reply from the Debian mailing list. I've asked several times on twitter but I too have had no response from the official Debian twitter account.<p>Sources:<p>* <a href="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/selinux-devel/2015-April/001233.html" rel="nofollow">http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/selinux-devel/2015-...</a><p>* <a href="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/selinux-devel/2015-April/001234.html" rel="nofollow">http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/selinux-devel/2015-...</a><p>* <a href="https://twitter.com/s_mcleod/status/589699467885948928" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/s_mcleod/status/589699467885948928</a><p>* <a href="https://twitter.com/s_mcleod/status/583172820802281472" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/s_mcleod/status/583172820802281472</a>
Have been running Debian on all of my computers for a while now and couldn't be happier with it. Fantastic distro made by a great team, thanks for another great release!
That's not an official release statement.<p>It's a month old mail stating Debian targeted today as a release date for Debian 8 (edit: latest news item in the list).
Just on the side note. This was announced on microsoft website about them celebrating about Debian release.<p><a href="http://openness.microsoft.com/blog/2015/04/21/microsoft-debian-8-linuxfest/" rel="nofollow">http://openness.microsoft.com/blog/2015/04/21/microsoft-debi...</a>
I have some legacy linux servers that need an update to a new OS. Is Debian 8 a good choice? All I care about is that stuff just works for as many years as possible, gets security updates and does not break.
Help testing the final images:
<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianCD/ReleaseTesting/Jessie" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianCD/ReleaseTesting/Jessie</a>
For anyone using a Debian derivative/repackage, that "systemd" thing everyone was moaning about? It has just happened. Interesting times.
And here's the official announcement: <a href="https://bits.debian.org/2015/04/jessie-released.html" rel="nofollow">https://bits.debian.org/2015/04/jessie-released.html</a>
As an AWS user, I switched from Amazon Linux to Ubuntu 14.04 because it's easy to replicate the development environment. No performance/stability issues so far however I'm curious if Debian 8 has an edge over Ubuntu 14.04 for a medium sized website on AWS. My only gripe with Ubuntu is that apt-get doesn't have the latest stables packages (like Amazon Linux does). I'm guessing it would be the same with Debian.
I think maybe it's more accurate to say that today is <i>planned</i> release day? Two relevant links:<p>(Second) latest post to debian-devel-announce:<p><a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2015/04/msg00009.html" rel="nofollow">https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2015/04/msg00...</a><p>And latest post to debian-announce (concerning the latest stable <i>point</i> release, 7.8):<p><a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/2015/04/msg00000.html" rel="nofollow">https://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/2015/04/msg00000.ht...</a>
live updates: <a href="https://identi.ca/debian" rel="nofollow">https://identi.ca/debian</a><p>release can happen any moment!