Debian Squeeze Frozen

Re:Debian Squeeze Frozen by kalessin on Friday August 06, 2010 @01:57PM (#1581766)

Linux 2.6.32 will be quite outdated upon release, I hope they will make a squeeze 'n half like they did for Etch.

Also, I hope python 2.6 will be enough for the Squeeze lifetime, as python 2.7 is stable now. Python 2.5 on Lenny (while 2.6 was already released) was problematic in term of lacking features.

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Re:Debian Squeeze Frozen by catch23 on Friday August 06, 2010 @03:26PM (#1582079)

There's always backports.org :-)

I'm surprised how many debian users don't know about backports. The packages there are quite stable and is useful for the one or two things you need updated versions of.

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Re:Debian Squeeze Frozen by jolan on Friday August 06, 2010 @04:52PM (#1582286)

and http://www.dotdeb.org/ for php/mysql

and http://debian.dc-uoit.net/debian-multimedia/ for an ffmpeg that has modernish codecs

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Re:Debian Squeeze Frozen by hga on Friday August 06, 2010 @06:08PM (#1582450)

Which kernel was a bit tricky for squeeze (note that the below is based on old and perhaps out of date research):

First of course they wanted to start with a stable enough one; I remember them passing over one possibility (.31???) because it wasn't very good in their and many other people's opinion.

This will be the last version of Debian that supports a Xen DomU with a patched kernel vs. pv_ops; in theory pv_ops DomU will be sufficiently solid by the following release. Doing a solid merge of the code even with the SUSE foundation is non-trivial (Xen supplies it as patches to 2.6.18).

I pay attention to this because some of what I do is with or on Xen and Debian lenny was the best DomU solution for me when I started.

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Re:Debian Squeeze Frozen by Cabal on Friday August 06, 2010 @08:17PM (#1582733)

I think you meant forward-ported Dom0 patches. Lenny already supported DomU operation without modification.

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Re:Debian Squeeze Frozen by hga on Friday August 06, 2010 @08:44PM (#1582792)

Yes, yes, I spazzed 0 -> U. Thanks for the correction.

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Re:Debian Squeeze Frozen by avar on Friday August 06, 2010 @02:00PM (#1581774)

They're also shipping Perl from the three year old 5.10 branch, instead of the 4 month old 5.12.

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Re:Debian Squeeze Frozen by jolan on Friday August 06, 2010 @04:54PM (#1582291)

That's why the nickname for stable is stale.

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Re:Debian Squeeze Frozen by Dunbar on Saturday August 07, 2010 @02:58AM (#1583195)

Which could be construed as a synonym for hardened.

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