Miguel A. Vallejo wrote:
...
> I activelly follow the development of some programs in diverse areas
> (ham radio, astronomy, emulators, etc), and new versions usually
> appears in unstable months after release. The more prominent example
> is the kernel itself. Current version is 5.5.7, but
I have a friend who works as a system administrator that always says:
Debian Stable --> Debian Server
Debian Testing --> Debian Desktop Moderate
Debian Unstable --> Debian Desktop Fast
Being Moderate and Fast the speed at you will eat new bugs.
As time goes by, I'm more and more agree with him.
On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 06:48:21PM +0100, Sam wrote:
> Thanks for your points of view! I agree that Stable comes at a cost, and of
> course if I ever were to set up a server Debian would probably be my choice.
>
> Regarding derivatives, I know about Ubuntu, Mint, etc., but I don't exactly
>
On Thu, 27 Feb 2020 09:30:36 -0500
Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > Right. You can also use a CD based Linux such as finnix to shrink an
> > existing LVM logical volume (LV), create a new LV for swap, and run
> > mkswap to lay down a swap partition on it.
>
> BTW, you don't need a separate CD or
On Thu, 27 Feb 2020 08:54:02 +1100
Keith Bainbridge wrote:
>
>
> I'm having trouble understanding how LVM snapshots works on / if it
> is outside the LVM.
>
I don't think anyone has picked this up. Yes, you do need additional
space.
I've only done it a few times. It basically involves
> Right. You can also use a CD based Linux such as finnix to shrink an
> existing LVM logical volume (LV), create a new LV for swap, and run
> mkswap to lay down a swap partition on it.
BTW, you don't need a separate CD or anything like that: you can use
your initrd for that same purpose. I.e.
On Thu, 27 Feb 2020 11:43:42 +1100
Keith Bainbridge wrote:
> OK I am in the process of install debian in vbox. It set up LVM
> using the whole partition, and allowed several logical volumes.
>
> Am I safe to believe that this is what will happen with a SSD when I
> start?
Yes.
>
> I got a
On Thu, 27 Feb 2020 08:59:55 +
Brad Rogers wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Feb 2020 19:47:35 -0600
> John Hasler wrote:
>
> Hello John,
>
> >blindly upgrading nightly causes far more problems than it solves.
>
> Because that's what gets asked about. Nobody posts saying;
>
> "I updated lasted
On Wed, 26 Feb 2020 19:47:35 -0600
John Hasler wrote:
> Andrei writes:
> > An entire month without security updates is not the best idea in my
> > opinion.
>
> It appears to me from watching this list that the practice of
> blindly upgrading nightly causes far more problems than it
On Wed, 26 Feb 2020 19:47:35 -0600
John Hasler wrote:
Hello John,
>blindly upgrading nightly causes far more problems than it solves.
Because that's what gets asked about. Nobody posts saying;
"I updated lasted night, and everything worked!"
There's no point.
However, I do recognise that
Brad writes:
> I update daily, but 'cherry pick' in the event of transitions that
> _might_ have repercussions.
So you *don't* "track" testing by doing automatic full upgrades every
day. That is the practice that I'm arguing against.
--
John Hasler
jhas...@newsguy.com
Elmwood, WI USA
Andrei writes:
> An entire month without security updates is not the best idea in my
> opinion.
I follow the security list and do security updates as required, of
course. Those rarely (if ever) require full upgrades. There is no
need to do daily full upgrades just to stay up with security.
>
On 27/2/20 8:54 am, Keith Bainbridge wrote:
Thanks for the positive responses. I am interested now because I am
about to buy a new drive. I guess the answer to these will be obvious
when I choose LVM at the disk selection stage, but do I need to keep
system partitions separate? as I install
On 27/2/20 3:46 am, Charles Curley wrote:
On Thu, 27 Feb 2020 00:15:44 +1100
Keith Bainbridge wrote:
Is LVM viable? I can see the benefit of re-sizing on the fly. I use
multi-boot. I can see the possibility of /dev/sda1 and LVM using the
rest. But is it viable, please?
Yes, it is viable.
On Tue, 25 Feb 2020 19:18:10 -0600
John Hasler wrote:
Hello John,
>*Don't* "track" Testing or Unstable by upgrading nightly.
I'm with songbird (and others). It can be done, with care;
I subscribe to the 'Testing Changes' mailing list.
I subscribe to the 'Debian Developers' mailing list.
I
On Thu, 27 Feb 2020 00:15:44 +1100
Keith Bainbridge wrote:
> Is LVM viable? I can see the benefit of re-sizing on the fly. I use
> multi-boot. I can see the possibility of /dev/sda1 and LVM using the
> rest. But is it viable, please?
Yes, it is viable. I use an encrypted partition with LVM on
John Hasler wrote:
...
> *Don't* "track" Testing or Unstable by upgrading nightly. I don't
> understand why people want to do this. A full upgrade (after a test
> upgrade) about once a month is plenty.
different people have different purposes. :)
my reasons for my morning routine is to
Hi.
On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 12:15:44AM +1100, Keith Bainbridge wrote:
> Is LVM viable? I can see the benefit of re-sizing on the fly. I use
> multi-boot. I can see the possibility of /dev/sda1 and LVM using the rest.
> But is it viable, please?
Yes. LVM does not care if your drive was
Further to lvm snapshots, I have read about 10 articles explaining the
concept of LVM and how to set them up. All of them talk about using
/dev/sdb, c, d or more for LVM. None uses /dev/sda
I am running a laptop and raspberry pi's, all with only 1 prime 'disk' and
USB attached disks/sticks.
Is
On 2020-02-26, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>
> Debian testing already has checks and delays in place to filter out
> (most of the) problems. Updates fixing security issues are prioritised.
I used testing once; I found 'apt-listbugs' to be quite helpful in
obviating potential disaster (it was
On Ma, 25 feb 20, 19:18:10, John Hasler wrote:
> Sam writes:
> > I will give Testing a spin and will definitely take another look at
> > the Debian derivatives. You also made me admire the Debian community,
> > so that's a big plus on the
> > reasons-why-I-definitely-need-to-switch-to-Debian list
On 26/2/20 10:59 am, Stefan Monnier wrote:
LVM snapshots
I use timeshift for the same purpose; and have needed it a couple of
times over 14 months since switching from mint.
I look at what packages are to be upgraged, and if more than a few
libraries, I create a new timeshift first.
Sam writes:
> I will give Testing a spin and will definitely take another look at
> the Debian derivatives. You also made me admire the Debian community,
> so that's a big plus on the
> reasons-why-I-definitely-need-to-switch-to-Debian list :)
A couple of suggestions if you decide to use Testing
> I would happily consider using Debian Testing for example, but wherever I see
> someone asking about it I always find someone discouraging from using it due
> to the possibility of having broken or unsecure packages for a long time due
> to it being automated.
Other tools you can use: LVM
Thank you very much for the tips!
I will give Testing a spin and will definitely take another look at the Debian
derivatives. You also made me admire the Debian community, so that's a big
plus on the reasons-why-I-definitely-need-to-switch-to-Debian list :)
Thank you,
Sam
Peter Ehlert wrote:
> I think Debian Testing would fit you very well
> It is like a rock, honestly.
that hasn't been my experience, but i know what i'm doing
well enough to fix things or to ask for help here if i find
something i don't understand well enough.
i got bit by some kind of
Roberto writes:
> On strategy would be to run testing and not update too frequently.
I do that with Unstable. Works fine (but I use neither Gnome nor KDE) I
follow the security list and upgrade the relevant package when I see
something there that matters to me. Security fixes reach Unstable as
55 AM, Sam wrote:
Hello,
I would like to hear opinions about the release cycle of the Stable Debian
releases for a Desktop user.
I love the Debian ideals and perks (its social contract, independence from big
companies...) and understand to a certain extent the fundamentals on why
keeping "ol
Sam wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to hear opinions about the release cycle of the Stable Debian
> releases for a Desktop user.
>
> I love the Debian ideals and perks (its social contract, independence from
> big
> companies...) and understand to a certain extent
I install testing on all my machines*. It is very usable. Sid has given me
problems in the past, so I stay clear.
*While it is true I install testing, I should clarify that I continue to
use it as it moves into stable and then old-stable. Eventually, I hit some
kind of "you can't get there from
On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 06:48:21PM +0100, Sam wrote:
> Thanks for your points of view! I agree that Stable comes at a cost, and of
> course if I ever were to set up a server Debian would probably be my choice.
>
> Regarding derivatives, I know about Ubuntu, Mint, etc., but I don't exactly
>
Thanks for your points of view! I agree that Stable comes at a cost, and of
course if I ever were to set up a server Debian would probably be my choice.
Regarding derivatives, I know about Ubuntu, Mint, etc., but I don't exactly
like distributions tied to or ultimately dependant on commercial
On Tue, 25 Feb 2020 16:55:46 +0100
Sam wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to hear opinions about the release cycle of the Stable
> Debian releases for a Desktop user.
>
> I love the Debian ideals and perks (its social contract, independence
> from big companies...) and un
On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 04:55:46PM +0100, Sam wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to hear opinions about the release cycle of the Stable Debian
> releases for a Desktop user.
>
> I love the Debian ideals and perks (its social contract, independence from
> big
> comp
Hello,
I would like to hear opinions about the release cycle of the Stable Debian
releases for a Desktop user.
I love the Debian ideals and perks (its social contract, independence from big
companies...) and understand to a certain extent the fundamentals on why
keeping "old-ish"
David Jardine wrote:
On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 12:28:44PM -0800, Ken Teague wrote:
Barclay, Daniel wrote:
...
Well, maybe I'll prove to be understanding neither of you, but the
point seems to be that you can't 'force' the maturity of a package.
I wasn't talking about trying to force the
be at least somewhat subjective.
Nye
(PS: FWIW, it's my *personal* belief that the freeze for Lenny should
have been somewhat earlier, but on the other hand we already seem to
have reached the point where the time from freeze to release is a
large fraction of the total release cycle, and do we
, but on the other hand we already seem to
have reached the point where the time from freeze to release is a
large fraction of the total release cycle, and do we really want that
proportion to be bigger?)
If the time until the freeze is reduced, fewer changes would be incorporated
before the freeze, so
Ken Teague wrote:
Barclay, Daniel wrote:
Ken Teague wrote:
...
If Debian set a shorter target release interval, each individual package
maintainer would implement (and test and debug) a smaller set of features
and changes (for that package) for each (more frequent) release. I don't
think
On Tuesday 03 February 2009 12:51:15 Barclay, Daniel wrote:
[C]ould freezes in testing be started sooner
after the previous release?
I think so. There's really no reason that testing has to unfreeze at all,
but it's how things are done right now.
I think it would be nice if some automated
Ken Teague wrote:
Barclay, Daniel wrote:
Why do so many defenses of Debian's release cycle length seem to ignore or
skirt the issue of _how_ _much_ is planned to be in each release? (Saying
when it's right still depends on what it is--which set of features/
changes are involved.)
How
Raquel wrote:
On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:38:41 -0800
Ken Teague ktea...@pobox.com wrote:
Is Debian's stable release cycle relative long because Debian
releases typically involve big changes that set the minimum time
between releases, or is it because Debian not really attempt to
design
that?) People rarely address how the length
of Debian's release cycle is affected by how much change Debian tries to
incorporate into each release.
The changes are mostly incorporated into the various packages and the
Linux kernel. I don't think most Debian users are concerned with the
length
Just jumping in on one small point.
On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 12:28:44PM -0800, Ken Teague wrote:
I can't put an exact number on it, but I think there are more than a
thousand Debian developers from various parts of the world, each of whom
have a life outside of Debian development. Without
Carl Fink wrote:
Just jumping in on one small point.
Doesn't actually make much sense, if you think about it. If the packages
are updated by Debian developers, surely that would help Debian to its next
release, too? Anyway, IIRC someone posted to this list last year that a
great number of
On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 12:28:44PM -0800, Ken Teague wrote:
Barclay, Daniel wrote:
[...]
Doing it the second way does _not_ have to compromise any quality
standards.
(Why do you (seemingly) think it does?)
Perhaps I wasn't understanding you correctly the first time around.
Perhaps
Barclay, Daniel wrote:
As I wrote in my other message, I'm talking about changing the chunk size
of releases, not the quality.
Debian releases work more or less like this:
- new software versions are published upstream (source code).
- this software is packaged into debian and enters
David Jardine wrote:
If that's not a complete load of rubbish, quality will be improved
by longer release cycles.
Makes sense to me. I also found this in a very old post to this list
which points out a lot of pros and cons::
On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 00:36:15 +0530, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote:
On Tuesday 2008 December 30 12:30:40 Barclay, Daniel wrote:
However, when you're releasing N thousand changes every 18 months or so,
it's arguable that maybe you should be releasing N/2 thousand changes every
9 or 10 months.
Bah. I think that 18 months is a fine amount of time between stable
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote, on 07/01/09 09:09:
On Tuesday 2008 December 30 12:30:40 Barclay, Daniel wrote:
However, when you're releasing N thousand changes every 18 months or so,
it's arguable that maybe you should be releasing N/2 thousand changes every
9 or 10 months.
Bah. I think that
Raquel wrote:
I, for one, am very thankful for Debian and the way that it
releases. I run a couple of servers that I would just as soon just
ran, instead of having to tinker or fix things all the time. I have
more to do.
Thank you, Debian!!
Yes, me too. I'm also using debian because
Koh Choon Lin wrote:
Dear all
Anyone has an idea what is the release cycle for Debian? I understand
six months is the standard for Ubuntu.
Look in http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ . The current number of
bugs affecting the next release is 92 (the green line). When this bug
number
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Funny. I always thought that latest testing was anointed stable by
the release panjandrum when - and only when -- the latter determined
that the relative positions of the planets were such to guarantee
complete freedom of the new release from bugs.
s. keeling wrote:
Koh Choon Lin uselessm...@gmail.com:
Anyone has an idea what is the release cycle for Debian? I
understand six months is the standard for Ubuntu.
Why? What's wrong with Etch and Lenny? They're both well usable now,
yes? Are you looking for Lenny features in a stable
Barclay, Daniel wrote:
Why do so many defenses of Debian's release cycle length seem to ignore or
skirt the issue of _how_ _much_ is planned to be in each release? (Saying
when it's right still depends on what it is--which set of features/
changes are involved.)
How much of what? If I'm
On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:38:41 -0800
Ken Teague ktea...@pobox.com wrote:
Is Debian's stable release cycle relative long because Debian
releases typically involve big changes that set the minimum time
between releases, or is it because Debian not really attempt to
design and make smaller
Koh Choon Lin uselessm...@gmail.com:
Anyone has an idea what is the release cycle for Debian? I
understand six months is the standard for Ubuntu.
Why? What's wrong with Etch and Lenny? They're both well usable now,
yes? Are you looking for Lenny features in a stable release?
Debian
On Thu, 25 Dec 2008, Mark Allums engaged keyboard and shared this with us all:
--} Andrei Popescu wrote:
--} On Tue,23.Dec.08, 07:37:18, Mark Allums wrote:
--}
--} Release schedule for Debian seems to be, whenever they feel like it.
--}
--} Maybe it's because I'm not a native speaker, but
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Tue,23.Dec.08, 07:37:18, Mark Allums wrote:
Release schedule for Debian seems to be, whenever they feel like it.
Maybe it's because I'm not a native speaker, but this sounds to me as if
Debian Developers would release according to their mood :)
Regards,
Andrei
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Tue,23.Dec.08, 07:37:18, Mark Allums wrote:
Release schedule for Debian seems to be, whenever they feel like it.
Maybe it's because I'm not a native speaker, but this sounds to me as if
Debian Developers would release according to their mood :)
It means that
On Tue,23.Dec.08, 07:37:18, Mark Allums wrote:
Release schedule for Debian seems to be, whenever they feel like it.
Maybe it's because I'm not a native speaker, but this sounds to me as if
Debian Developers would release according to their mood :)
Regards,
Andrei
--
If you can't explain it
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Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Tue,23.Dec.08, 07:37:18, Mark Allums wrote:
Release schedule for Debian seems to be, whenever they feel like it.
Maybe it's because I'm not a native speaker, but this sounds to me as if
Debian Developers would
On Wed,24.Dec.08, 16:21:41, Daryl Styrk wrote:
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Tue,23.Dec.08, 07:37:18, Mark Allums wrote:
Release schedule for Debian seems to be, whenever they feel like it.
Maybe it's because I'm not a native speaker, but this sounds to me as if
Debian Developers would
Dear all
Anyone has an idea what is the release cycle for Debian? I understand
six months is the standard for Ubuntu.
Also, when can binary for 4.0r6 be expected to be released?
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On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 08:28:43PM +0800, Koh Choon Lin wrote:
Dear all
Anyone has an idea what is the release cycle for Debian? I understand
six months is the standard for Ubuntu.
When its ready. Generally every couple of years or so.
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Dear all
Anyone has an idea what is the release cycle for Debian? I understand
six months is the standard for Ubuntu.
Also, when can binary for 4.0r6 be expected to be released?
Binary for 4.0r6 should be out any day now. Might already be out.
Release schedule
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 08:28:43PM +0800, Koh Choon Lin wrote:
Dear all
Anyone has an idea what is the release cycle for Debian? I understand
six months is the standard for Ubuntu.
When its ready. Generally every couple of years or so.
Mark Allums wrote
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 08:28:43PM +0800, Koh Choon Lin wrote:
Dear all
Anyone has an idea what is the release cycle for Debian? I understand
six months is the standard for Ubuntu.
The operative rule for all recent releases is that each release
happens when the release manager decides
Am 2006-03-10 22:23:48, schrieb David Berg:
Has anyone heard/read anything that MIGHT indicate that etch MIGHT go
stable faster than the 2-3 years that it took for Sarge, and Woody to
go stable?
Woody went faster then 2-3 years, but there was a changement
in the Woody-Installer which took a
Þann 2006-03-11, 22:07:44 (-0500) skrifaði Mark Fletcher:
gawab wrote:
Steve Lamb wrote:
Marc Shapiro said:
Personally, my theory on the REAL reason that the release cycles have
been getting so long is that we are running out of Toy Story
character
names. What do we do
Olafur Jens Sigurdsson writes:
Actually Hell freezes over every year, or allmost.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell%2C_Norway
There is also a Hell in Michigan in the US (in the lower peninsula:
Paradise is in the upper peninsula).
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On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 22:07:44 -0500
Mark Fletcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Many of the people who come to this list looking for help know
exactly what it's like to be in Debian Hell... :-!
Attempting to keep an up-to-date Sid system before I knew much about
Linux, I have been to Debian Hell.
Steve Lamb wrote:
Marc Shapiro said:
Personally, my theory on the REAL reason that the release cycles have
been getting so long is that we are running out of Toy Story character
names. What do we do when there are no more characters left?
Start working through Monsters, Inc.? I
David Berg wrote:
I don't know if there's a good way to ask this question, and am very
tempted to just hit cancel now...
I'm curious to know when etch might freeze. Now, before you all jump
on me and tell me its ready when its ready, let me clarify. I'm not
[snip]
I think that your request
Marc Shapiro wrote:
David Berg wrote:
I'm curious to know when etch might freeze. Now, before you all jump
on me and tell me its ready when its ready, let me clarify. I'm not
looking for a date, or a month, or even a year necessarily as I
realize they would all be guesses. Perhaps I could
On Friday, 10.03.2006 at 22:09 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:
Marc Shapiro said:
Personally, my theory on the REAL reason that the release cycles have
been getting so long is that we are running out of Toy Story character
names. What do we do when there are no more characters left?
Start
gawab wrote:
Steve Lamb wrote:
Marc Shapiro said:
Personally, my theory on the REAL reason that the release cycles have
been getting so long is that we are running out of Toy Story
character
names. What do we do when there are no more characters left?
Start working through
I don't know if there's a good way to ask this question, and am very
tempted to just hit cancel now...
I'm curious to know when etch might freeze. Now, before you all jump
on me and tell me its ready when its ready, let me clarify. I'm not
looking for a date, or a month, or even a year
On Friday 10 March 2006 21:23, David Berg wrote:
I don't know if there's a good way to ask this question, and am very
tempted to just hit cancel now...
I'm curious to know when etch might freeze. Now, before you all jump
on me and tell me its ready when its ready, let me clarify. I'm not
webmin), including new arch(64bit) and not
including others(68k) and of course the rate at which RC bugs are fixed.
It seems each release cycle is an advanture. This one include ubuntu as
a factor. They are working with Debian[0] and will hopefully speed up some
issues. There has also been 'teams
David Berg wrote:
I don't know if there's a good way to ask this question, and am very
tempted to just hit cancel now...
I'm curious to know when etch might freeze. Now, before you all jump
on me and tell me its ready when its ready, let me clarify. I'm not
looking for a date, or a
David Berg wrote:
I'm curious to know when etch might freeze. Now, before you all jump
on me and tell me its ready when its ready, let me clarify. I'm not
looking for a date, or a month, or even a year necessarily as I
realize they would all be guesses. Perhaps I could get the best
answer by
Marc Shapiro said:
Personally, my theory on the REAL reason that the release cycles have
been getting so long is that we are running out of Toy Story character
names. What do we do when there are no more characters left?
Start working through Monsters, Inc.? I mean what's cooler than
On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 22:23 -0600, David Berg wrote:
I don't know if there's a good way to ask this question, and am very
tempted to just hit cancel now...
I'm curious to know when etch might freeze. Now, before you all jump
on me and tell me its ready when its ready, let me clarify.
FYI,
release cycle ( http://wiki.debian.net/?ReleaseProposals )
SPI
DFSG
Ubuntu
O ingresso do KDE e Gnome no Testing foram críticos mas estão finalizando.
O kde 3.4 já tem pacotes PREVIEW (a quem interessar, vi um link para o
repositório do 3.4 no debianwiki na pagina do kde
http://wiki.debian.net
,
testing, etc
release cycle can be daily or weekly or monthly ...
- you can release a CD anytime you like
and that daily build already exists
- the developers tasks is probably just 10% of the overall
release cycle before it gets blessed to go out
- if you want a stable release ... where
valley ... a good developer can pull down $150K/yr or more
and gazillion in stock options
- you get what you pay for ... in terms of quality of coding,
productive work, qa, bug tracking, doc que ment a tion,
testing, etc
release cycle can be daily or weekly or monthly
Hi,
Would it be feasible to hire one or more full time developer to spend
all their time ironing out the release critical bugs?
How much would this developer need to get paid?
Any ideas as to whether people would be willing to commit a certain
amount of annual donations to this etc. would also
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 09:24:00PM -0500, Abdul Latip wrote:
* The Multiple Architecture Support Issue
Each additional architecture support will significantly increase
the Debian release cycle, including security update, as well as
moving from unstable to testing.
I don't believe
relation to the Debian release cycle.
yes, i would call this correct. it is actually about RC bugs,
so-called release-critical bugs. If there is one of those, then the
frozen testing release is not ready for rollout.
Each additional architecture support will significantly increase
the Debian
Hi,
First of all, apology for my poor English. This following
is *NOT* a complaint, but I would like to know if I have
got the picture correctly in regard of the Debian release cycle
(e.g. from Woody to Sarge). Please let my know the URL if
this issue has been discussed before.
* The Essential
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