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Debian 7 “Wheezy” LTS from February 2016 to May 2018

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Debian 7 “Wheezy” LTS from February 2016 to May 2018

#1 Post by mardybear »

Stumbled across this as i'm looking at installing Squeeze on older hardware :D
Anyway, looks like users will be able to safely use Wheezy until May 2018.
Thus the Debian LTS team takes over security maintenance of the various releases once the Debian Security team stops its work. The team will thus handle:

Debian 6 “Squeeze” until February 2016
Debian 7 “Wheezy” from February 2016 to May 2018
Debian 8 “Jessie“ from May 2018 to April/May 2020
Source: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/
800mhz, 512mb ram, dCore-jessie (Tiny Core with Debian Jessie packages) with BusyBox and Fluxbox.
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#2 Post by Ardouos »

Great news! My laptop can be systemd free for longer. ;)
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#3 Post by dasein »

Great news, great find. Thanks, mardybear.

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#4 Post by mardybear »

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#5 Post by cpoakes »

And when you keep using wheezy, you will likely be interested in the "debian-security-support" package. It monitors and warns you of packages with limited or ended security support, like libwebkit, libqtwebkit, and chromium-browser packages.

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#6 Post by Linadian »

This is OK news but Debhat no longer takes first place in my heart or my machine, it's a backseat bee-yatch now.

There is another way to interpret this news, Debhat is on life support until February 2018. -----*-.-*-.-----*-.-*-.--------------------beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep, flatline, lol
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#7 Post by Roel63 »

Linadian wrote:Debhat no longer takes first place in my heart or my machine, it's a backseat bee-yatch now.
It still challenges you to visit its forum and tell the world you're leaving this place. Be careful, somebody may believe you :lol:

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#8 Post by Roel63 »

Linadian wrote:Ha, you're funny, but seriously, this is similar to my anti-MS ranting of years ago, people need to be informed
I know I am funny. But, did you do your anti-MS ranting on the MS forums, like you do your daily rant on the Debian forums?

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#9 Post by Linadian »

Roel63 wrote:
Linadian wrote:Ha, you're funny, but seriously, this is similar to my anti-MS ranting of years ago, people need to be informed
I know I am funny. But, did you do your anti-MS ranting on the MS forums, like you do your daily rant on the Debian forums?
Daily?

Is this your forum? Are you staff? If you don't like it you could always 1) convince Debhat to come back from the darkside, 2) ignore my posts, there's always the venerable 3) GFYS. :P
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#10 Post by Roel63 »

Linadian wrote:Daily?
I am so sorry, I now see it is multiple times per day.
Linadian wrote:Is this your forum? Are you staff? If you don't like it you could always 1) convince Debhat to come back from the darkside, 2) ignore my posts, there's always the venerable 3) GFYS. :P
No this is not my forum and I am not staff, but Debian is still my distribution. I still use it even after the systemd switch, everything still seems to work like it did, even the /etc/init.d/[service] start/restart/stop. And I do like it so I am still around, it just seems that you do NOT like it and visit the forums more than I do. Just wondering. no more than this.

As for your questions:

1) Debian is fine to me as it is, what should I be convincing?
2) I will not ignore anyone, just too scared to miss something
3) been there, done that.

I just have an opinion as well, I am truly sorry.

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Roel63 wrote:
Linadian wrote:Daily?
I am so sorry, I now see it is multiple times per day.
Linadian wrote:Is this your forum? Are you staff? If you don't like it you could always 1) convince Debhat to come back from the darkside, 2) ignore my posts, there's always the venerable 3) GFYS. :P
No this is not my forum and I am not staff, but Debian is still my distribution. I still use it even after the systemd switch, everything still seems to work like it did, even the /etc/init.d/[service] start/restart/stop. And I do like it so I am still around, it just seems that you do NOT like it and visit the forums more than I do. Just wondering. no more than this.

As for your questions:

1) Debian is fine to me as it is, what should I be convincing?
2) I will not ignore anyone, just too scared to miss something
3) been there, done that.

I just have an opinion as well, I am truly sorry.
There's no need to apologize, everybody is entitled to their opinion/choices. I thought I found an OS for the remainder of my life, but then Debhat started bending over for corps and others, which goes against my ideologies, I'm still a little upset, the wounds are still a little fresh, I'll get bored of this and eventually disappear. I'm just glad I didn't donate too much money or time in this distro before they swallowed the poison pill. Speaking of money, I wonder how much their donations are dropping, or maybe increasing, from their new corporate partners. :roll:
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#12 Post by Roel63 »

Linadian wrote:everybody is entitled to their opinion/choices
Something to agree upon :)

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#13 Post by Linadian »

Any of my posts with the slightest bit of visceral truth in them get moved here, the forum admins like to hide the dirty laundry. The irony is, anybody that matters is already intelligent enough to know Debian sold out.
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#14 Post by dilberts_left_nut »

Linadian wrote:Any of my posts with the slightest bit of visceral truth in them get moved here, the forum admins like to hide the dirty laundry. The irony is, anybody that matters is already intelligent enough to know Debian sold out.
No, just the ones where your fingers get too far ahead of your brain cell.
Keep it clean(ish) and on topic(ish) and no problem...

edit and the're not hidden - just added onto the big thread of stupid.
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#15 Post by keithpeter »

Just did a netinstall of wheezy/MATE 1.8 on an SSD in a Thinkpad X200.

http://sohcahtoa.org.uk/pages/wheezy-wi ... sktop.html

Fast, light, responsive, other people can see how the interface works quickly (well quicker than they can work out how to use the trackpoint!). Support of various kinds until 2018 so. Jessie with the same interface an upgrade away if I need to bail out.

No excuse for not finishing the projects now :twisted:

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