Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" Released

[VinDSL]

Debian 6 Squeeze -- the universal operating system -- has finally been released!

Linkage: http://www.debian.org/News/2011/20110205a

 

[TBSN]

Cool, look forward to hearing the impressions (unless it hasn't changed much). I'm thinking about switching to CrunchBang (#!) which is based on Debian, probably Lenny.

 

[Nothinman]

Wow, I'm too far out of the loop these days because I had no idea that was happening. It's also the first Debian to fully support a non-Linux kernel in the kFreeBSD variant, although ZFS root still seems sketchy.

 

[eternalone]

This is relevant to my intrest. Will this be implemented into the Next ubuntu, then mint I presume.

 

[Khyron320]

Mint has a debian version.
Also what's new in 6 that we really care about?

 

[Nothinman]

Mint has a debian version.
Also what's new in 6 that we really care about?

The same stuff in every new distro's release, newer software. Although this is also the first release of the Debian kFreeBSD port which lets you have the FreeBSD kernel and thus ZFS support with the Debian userland.

 

[child of wonder]

My file server has already been upgraded. Running nicely.

 

[zokudu]

Hmmm I was running Squeeze from testing for quite some time. Think its worth a reinstall? I could never get the sid upgrade to work properly and I took that as a sign to avoid using sid xD.

 

[Nothinman]

Hmmm I was running Squeeze from testing for quite some time. Think its worth a reinstall? I could never get the sid upgrade to work properly and I took that as a sign to avoid using sid xD.

Doubtful, Debian puts a lot of work into making sure upgrades work although some bugs just get documented as caveats in the release notes. Occasionally a new install/upgrade of sid is broken, but I've been running sid for probably like 10 years now with very few issues. Usually only things like big Gnome upgrades, the XFree86->Xorg transition, etc cause any real breakage. Most of the time if you install apt-listbugs and make sure none of them affect you whenever you update you'll be fine and major bugs are usually fixed within a week at worst.

 

[zokudu]

I think the issue was that I built the fglrx driver on the squeeze xorg so the driver wasn't working and would not compile for the updated version in sid. I remember I spent hours on IRC fixing it. Maybe I'll give it another shot. The old ticket that pointed to my problem has been closed.

 

[Nothinman]

Yea, some of those drivers can cause issues for big X or kernel changes. I had similar issues with the non-free nVidia drivers. The best you can do is install apt-listbugs and be careful but I've found that to be enough many times.