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Debian 11 'Bullseye' Released As Stable (debian.org) 40

"One of the oldest and most renowned distributions of Linux has been released!" âwrites Slashdot reader Washuu2. Phoronix reports it took "just over two years in development." Debian 11 brings many new features as outlined this morning with the big upgrade to Linux 5.10 LTS, exFAT file-system support, control groups v2, yescrypt for password hashing, and a plethora of updated packages. GNOME 3.38, KDE Plasma 5.20, and Xfce 4.16 are among the desktop options for Debian 11.
Debian.org adds: Do you want to celebrate the release? We provide some bullseye artwork that you can share or use as base for your own creations. Follow the conversation about bullseye in social media via the #ReleasingDebianBullseye and #Debian11Bullseye hashtags...
Around the world, there were even several in-person and online release parties — with a few more upcoming!
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Debian 11 'Bullseye' Released As Stable

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  • by Anonymous Coward

    You can't beat a bit of bully. Apparently Debian are giving away a caravan or a speedboat to the top contributors.

    (non-UK contributors are unlikely to grok this post)

  • So what does Mr Debian do with the income from all those CD sales?

  • Installing now, via updated sources.list

    Hopefully my computing machine will still boot later on tonight. I've had bad experience with this kind of thing, I only just about started trusting the ubuntu dist-upgrade script
    • Ubuntu is as bad as Windows anymore. I'll install Ubuntu on a device at work and 5 minutes later apt will complain that something in /var is locked. Do a ps and see that the unattended upgrade service is running without me asking. This service is enabled by default.

      • Re:Kewl! (Score:4, Interesting)

        by ISayWeOnlyToBePolite ( 721679 ) on Sunday August 15, 2021 @03:40PM (#61695427)

        Ubuntu is as bad as Windows anymore. I'll install Ubuntu on a device at work and 5 minutes later apt will complain that something in /var is locked. Do a ps and see that the unattended upgrade service is running without me asking. This service is enabled by default.

        It's been installed by default in debian since stretch (2017). You can configure it via the gui or https://wiki.debian.org/Unatte... [debian.org]

    • I'll be waiting a week or two to see if it's stable.

      Not that I expect anything, but you know, a billion configurations and all it takes is that I have the one they didn't test...

      • by Anonymous Coward

        Debian works differently from other operating systems in that respect - they always have three versions out there simultaneously: stable, testing, and unstable. The 'testing' version frequently has more users than 'stable'.

        The only downside of this approach is 'stable' tends to be several years behind, which is why 'testing' frequently ends up with more users.

        Until yesterday, Bullseye was 'testing'. Today it is 'stable'. So it's unlikely any issues related to specific configurations are going to come u

    • Try in a VM or on an expendable machine if in doubt, or on a spare hard disk.

    • Sigh. Been there, suffered that. Now I test in a VM first.

  • Do English' speakers check any stories here any more?

    • by Anonymous Coward

      "X has been released", third-person singular in the perfect present tense. Looks correct. What's your objection to this?

      Your use of an apostrophe following "English" seems superfluous, however.

      • This is confusing: "One of the oldest and most renowned distributions of Linux has been released!" Presumably it means "The latest version of one of the oldest ...."

  • But many of the distros in my toolkit do:
    Kali
    TAILS
    #!++ (CrunchBangPP)
    AntiX

    So welcome bulleye, hope to see you soon

  • Hope Devuan Chimaera based on Debian Bullseye will release soon. Devuan Beowulf I'm currently using is fast and stable, uses runit init. I have Gnome-3.30 as the DE. Most convenient thing is, no systemd knowledge needed, the old service command will do. Only gripe is, as a desktop user I'm not getting the latest Gnome-3.x/4 DE available unlike Ubuntu. Yes, Devuan is just fine for average desktop Linux users as well. Hopes Debian will continue supporting alternate init options which makes it possible for Dev

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