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Debian Linux 10 'Buster' Places Stability Ahead of Excitement
2019-07-12 14:00:00| TechNewsWorld
After 25 months of development, the makers of the granddaddy of the Linux OSes released an upgrade that updates many of the software packages and plays general catch-up with modern Linux trends. However, Debian Linux 10 Buster is a boring upgrade. It does little to draw attention to its merits. For serious Linux users, though, boring can be endearing.
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Cinnamon Mint for Debian Just as Tasty
2018-09-07 18:53:22| TechNewsWorld
The official release of version 3 of Linux Mint Debian Edition hit the download servers at summer's end, offering a subtle alternative to the distro's Ubuntu-based counterpart. Codenamed "Cindy," the new version of LMDE is based on Debian 9 Stretch and features the Cinnamon desktop environment. Its release creates an unusual situation in the world of Linux distro competition. Linux Mint developers seem to be in competition with themselves.
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Debian 4.0 Gets Security Update
2017-06-19 12:07:06| eWEEK Linux
One of the most popular of the community Linuxes saw out the old year with a new security release.
Forked Debian Beta Is Rough Around the Edges
2016-05-18 00:54:42| TechNewsWorld
The Devuan GNU/Linux community's much-awaited Devuan Linux Jessie 1.0 beta release is available. It took two years for disgruntled Debian community members to make good on their promise of a systemd-free Debian distro. They rejected a Linux-wide trend to replace older init processes such as Upstart and System V with systemd. The process of forking Debian into Devuan took much longer than expected.
Debian Forked: All for Devuan and Devuan for All?
2015-01-27 00:53:03| TechNewsWorld
A group of developers made good on their threats to fork Debian Linux late last year, after the community's leadership voted to replace sysvinit with systemd, making systemd the default init boot process. The Debian Technical Committee's decision spurred several key Debian developers and project maintainers to resign. Some of them formed a new community dedicated to forking Debian.