26 Jan
2017
26 Jan
'17
2:31 a.m.
Hello,
What will become Debian stretch (9.x) is going to be frozen on
5 February:
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianStretch
and presumably released relatively soon after that, so we've added
stretch to our self-installer.
If you are keen on testing a new install of it you should now be
able to use that. Bear in mind it still is Debian "testing" though,
not a release yet, so there may be issues you will need to report to
Debian.
More info on the self-installer:
https://tools.bitfolk.com/wiki/Using_the_self-serve_net_installer
Cheers,
Andy
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1 Feb
1 Feb
10:09 a.m.
New subject: Debian stretch (9.x) installer now available for self-install
On Thu, 26 Jan 2017 02:31:24 +0000
Andy Smith <andy(a)bitfolk.com> wrote:
Hello,
What will become Debian stretch (9.x) is going to be frozen on
5 February:
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianStretch
and presumably released relatively soon after that, so we've added
stretch to our self-installer.
'As always, Debian 9 "Stretch" will be released "when it's
ready".'
This could be several months as there are still many 'release critical'
bugs to be sorted.
Another thing to consider is that the package version
shipped in
Stretch will be around for a loooong time. Debian releases see about
3 years of full support, and an extra 2 years with LTS. Debian jessie
will therefore be supported normally until 2018 and with LTS until
2020. To quote the release team: As always, Debian 9 "Stretch" will
be released "when it's ready". Some stats about a typical Debian
release, it:
endures a freeze cycle of 7 +/- 1 months before getting released.
is released about 2 years after the previous one (the often cited
example of Debian Sarge being quite an exceptional event in Debian
history). leaves users about 1 year to upgrade to the next one once
this latter itself gets released. has (from release to the end of
security updates) a total lifetime of about 3 years.
So starting with a full freeze in february 2017, we could see a
release in september 2017, which would mean support until september
2020 and LTS until 2022, a whooping 6 years from now.
I upated from jessie to stretch on my laptop and it is rather unstable
at present, dumping me out to the login screen pretty frequently when I
am web browsing. It may well be more stable in 'server' mode tho'
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John Lewis
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10:11 a.m.
New subject: Debian stretch (9.x) installer now available for self-install
On 01/02/17 11:09, john lewis wrote:
On Thu, 26 Jan 2017 02:31:24 +0000
Andy Smith <andy(a)bitfolk.com> wrote:
That's a bit odd. I've been running stretch for a long time, on servers,
workstations and laptops. Can't remember anything like that.
- OM
So starting with a full freeze in february 2017,
we could see a
release in september 2017, which would mean support until september
2020 and LTS until 2022, a whooping 6 years from now.
I upated from jessie to stretch on my laptop and it is rather unstable
at present, dumping me out to the login screen pretty frequently when I
am web browsing. It may well be more stable in 'server' mode tho'
10:39 a.m.
New subject: Debian stretch (9.x) installer now available for self-install
On Wed, 1 Feb 2017 11:11:39 +0100
Ole-Morten Duesund <olemd(a)glemt.net> wrote:
On 01/02/17 11:09, john lewis wrote:
It is a fairly elderly thinkpad (X61s) and I am running the mate
desktop. Jessie was just fine and I don't usually upgrade until a new
version has been in 'stable' for several months, having said that my
main desktop system has been running 'sid' since I set it up quite a few
years ago and I am quite happy with it, it gets a daily dose of
update/upgrade and I have rarely had a problem that wasn't fixed
within days.
However my VPS will not get upgraded until several months after stretch
is released.
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John Lewis
Debian & the GeneWeb genealogical data server
On Thu, 26 Jan 2017 02:31:24 +0000
Andy Smith <andy(a)bitfolk.com> wrote:
That's a bit odd. I've been running stretch for a long time, on
servers, workstations and laptops. Can't remember anything like that. So starting with a full freeze in february 2017,
we could see a
release in september 2017, which would mean support until september
2020 and LTS until 2022, a whooping 6 years from now.
I upated from jessie to stretch on my laptop and it is rather
unstable at present, dumping me out to the login screen pretty
frequently when I am web browsing. It may well be more stable in
'server' mode tho' 
8:30 p.m.
New subject: Debian stretch (9.x) installer now available for self-install
Hi,
On 02/01/2017 11:11 AM, Ole-Morten Duesund wrote:
On 01/02/17 11:09, john lewis wrote:
I have it on my laptop and it seems pretty stable to me.
Regards,
Sam
On Thu, 26 Jan 2017 02:31:24 +0000
Andy Smith <andy(a)bitfolk.com> wrote:
That's a bit odd. I've been running stretch for a long time, on servers,
workstations and laptops. Can't remember anything like that. So starting with a full freeze in february 2017,
we could see a
release in september 2017, which would mean support until september
2020 and LTS until 2022, a whooping 6 years from now.
I upated from jessie to stretch on my laptop and it is rather unstable
at present, dumping me out to the login screen pretty frequently when I
am web browsing. It may well be more stable in 'server' mode tho' 
21 Feb
21 Feb
11:09 a.m.
New subject: Debian stretch (9.x) installer now available for self-install
On Wed, 2017-02-01 at 21:30 +0100, Sam Bächler wrote:
Hi,
On 02/01/2017 11:11 AM, Ole-Morten Duesund wrote:
> On 01/02/17 11:09, john lewis wrote:
>> On Thu, 26 Jan 2017 02:31:24 +0000
>> Andy Smith <andy(a)bitfolk.com> wrote:
>>
>>> So starting with a full freeze in february 2017, we could see a
>>> release in september 2017, which would mean support until september
>>> 2020 and LTS until 2022, a whooping 6 years from now.
>>
>> I upated from jessie to stretch on my laptop and it is rather unstable
>> at present, dumping me out to the login screen pretty frequently when I
>> am web browsing. It may well be more stable in 'server' mode tho'
>
I'm using it on a few workstations and it works ok for me (except
"evolution", but I am probably the only user who still uses that
anyways).
Did anyone do an upgrade to stretch yet on bitfolk?
Conrad
12:01 p.m.
New subject: Debian stretch (9.x) installer now available for self-install
Hi Conrad,
On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 11:09:41AM +0000, Conrad Wood wrote:
Did anyone do an upgrade to stretch yet on bitfolk?
I've only done it once, to check that it works, and it did. But as
usual the complexity is in specific packages, which me upgrading a
minimal install doesn't find…
Cheers,
Andy
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