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Leftovers: Debian, Ubuntu and Derivatives

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Monday 19th of June 2017 09:22:11 AM Filed under
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  • Debian9 release party in Tokyo

    We celebrated Debian9 "stretch" release in Tokyo (thanks to Cybozu, Inc. for the place).

  • Debian 9 KDE
  • Debian 9 Stretch Stable Is Released! Check Out The New Features

    Debian 9 Stretch has been released two years after the last major release Debian 8 codenamed Jessie. Before we see Debian 9 features, let me add an anecdote about those funny sounding code names.

  • Debian 9 ‘Stretch’ GNU/Linux Distro Released — Here Are The New Features And Download Links
  • Debian 9 Stretch operating system released
  • Debian devs dedicate new version 9 to the late Ian Murdock
  • Debian 9 released after 26 months of development
  • Debian 9 Edu (Skolelinux) Released — A Complete Linux Distro For Students And Schools
  • alioth needs your help
  • AIMS Desktop 2017.1 released

    The AIMS desktop is a Debian-derived distribution aimed at mathematical and scientific use. This project's first public release, based on Debian 9, is now available. It is a GNOME-based distribution with a bunch of add-on software. "It is maintained by AIMS (The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences), a pan-African network of centres of excellence enabling Africa’s talented students to become innovators driving the continent’s scientific, educational and economic self-sufficiency."

  • [Older] Testing Yunit on Debian Unstable ( Virtual machine )
  • Ubuntu 17.10 to Improve Secure Boot for Booting Windows from GRUB, Enable PIE

    Canonical's Steve Langasek presented the first edition of the Ubuntu Foundations Team weekly newsletter with some exciting information about the upcoming Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark) operating system.

    The first Alpha builds of Ubuntu 17.10 are almost here, due for release next week on June 29, 2017, for opt-in flavors, so the Ubuntu developers are working around the clock to add various new features, such as PIE (Position Independent Executables) support enabled by default for better security, as well as some other improvements in many areas of interest like Secure Boot.

    "PIE is now enabled across all architectures by default in Artful. Targeted rebuilds have been done of packages which would break reverse-build-dependencies due to not being compiled with PIE," says Steve Langasek. "The rest of the archive will now pick up PIE support on i386, armhf, and arm64 over the development cycle with rebuilds."

  • Mission Reports

    Well, taking just over 60 days to write again is not generally a good sign. Things have been incredibly busy at the day job. Finding out that a Reduction In Force is expected to happen in late September/early October also sharpens the mind as to the state of the economy. Our CEO at work is somewhat odd, to say the least. Certain acts by the CEO remain incredibly confusing if not utterly baffling.

    In UK-slang, I guess I could probably be considered a "God-botherer". I've been doing work as an evangelist lately. The only product though has been the Lord's Kingdom. One of the elders at church wound up with their wife in a local nursing home due to advanced age as well as deteriorating health so I got tasked with conducting full Sunday services at the nursing home. Compared to my day job, the work has been far more worthwhile serving people in an extended care setting. Sadly it cannot displace my job that I am apparently about to lose in about 90 days or so anyhow thanks to pending actions of the board and CEO.

  • Linux Mint 18.2 “Sonya” Beta Is Now Available
  • Loki Updates for May

    If you’ve recently installed Loki 0.4.1 you may not have noticed that some of these things are new. But for those upgrading from Loki 0.4.0 here’s a list of updates for the month of May.

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