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Back in late 2014, a team of “Veteran Unix Admins” announced their plans to release a systemd-free fork of Debian GNU+Linux; it was named Devuan. In mid-2017, the first Devuan 1.0 release arrived. Following the same, Devuan 2.0 has just been shipped by the developers as a stable release to provide an alternative to systemd and its […]
Short Bytes: Based on the latest Debian 9 Stretch, Debian 9 Edu has been released. This GNU/Linux distribution is aimed to serve the needs of students and schools. This release ships with preinstalled Plymouth, Nagios as the monitoring tool, and other changes. You can visit the project’s website to find the download links of network-based and […]
Short Bytes: The Debian Release team has finally released the Debian 9.0 “Stretch” stable GNU/Linux distribution. Named after Toy Story’s rubber toy octopus, Stretch, this release will remain supported for 5 years. Debian 9 ships with Linux kernel 4.9, new digital forensics tools, GNOME 3.22, default MariaDB, etc. You can either update your exisiting installation or download […]
Last week, we told you about the announcement of the release date of Debian 9.0 Stretch GNU/Linux distro. According to the announcement, Debian 9.0 is slated to arrive on June 17, 2017. Prior to that, another exciting development was made in the Debian world in the form of release of systemd-free Devuan 1.0.0 distro. Debian […]
After much anticipation, the Debian Release Team has finally announced the release date of Debian 9.0 “Stretch” GNU/Linux distribution. As per their announcement, the distro is slated to arrive on June 17. “We plan to release on 2017-06-17. If you want to celebrate it, please consider attending a Debian release party, or hosting your own,” […]
Short Bytes: In an announcement post, Debian project has revealed that Debian GNU/Linux operating system is dropping support for older 32-bit CPUs. The users using the older i486 or i586 architectures are advised to move to Debian 8 “Jessie”, which should support the older processors until 2020. Ben Hutchings, a Debian developer and Linux kernel maintainer, has […]