It has been announced, through the mailing list, the availability of the Snapshot 2011.10rc1 de Debian CUT (Constantly Usable Testing). And you wonder what the hell is it Debian CUT?
Debian CUT.
As you all know, the development cycles of Debian, between one stable version and the next, they are quite long. In server environments there is no problem, but, for the end user or desktop, it can be a bit annoying to be so out of date, so we are almost forced to use more unstable branches as they can be Testing, sid, experimental or make use of the backports.
With Debian CUT, it is intended to give the user the opportunity to have a Operating system stable, but at the same time, updated with more recent packages, focused on the end user. I quote:
Among all the ideas, there are two main approaches that have been discussed. The first is to test Snapshots regularly at points where they are known to work reasonably well (Snapshots will be called "CUT").
The second is to build a test distribution better adapted to the needs of users who want a distribution that works with daily updates, its name will be "Rolling".
The philosophy of rolling release It is not new, but in Debian It is a very risky step and above all, it will entail a titanic work on the part of the developers. Curiously, LMDE is in the middle of this discussion, or at least, has been taken as a reference. ^^
You can download the Mini iso both for i386 as if to amd64 at these URLs:
http://alioth.debian.org/~gilbert-guest/snapshots/2011.10/debian-testing-snapshot-2011.10rc1-i386-mini.iso
http://alioth.debian.org/~gilbert-guest/snapshots/2011.10/debian-testing-snapshot-2011.10rc1-amd64-mini.iso
These isos can burn both in CD / DVD, or they can be used from memory, as described in this link.
At last! Going down and testing!
Remember that errors can appear. Even in the mail they warn that a package may have problems when updating if the Mini iso has a larger version.
Anyway, if you can, tell us how it went ^ _ ^
regards
Why risky? It only affects the Testing and Unstable branches, you are not going to put them on a server or anything like that, the fact is that it does not affect the Stable, which it does
Risky because of the work system that has always characterized Debian. Testing above all, although in earlier times more updated packages were entering than the Stable branch, they were much more obsolete than in other distributions such as Ubuntu, Fedora ... etc.
That has changed. Now Testing is kept quite up to date, with the latest application packages such as Libreoffice, Chromium..etc.
But what good news !!!!!
I'm going to take a peek at him.
Greetings.
Enjoy !!!
Well ... I haven't noticed anything ... xD. Without any bug, or anything strange ... except the choice of several kernels the rest is all just as good as always. It looks like a normal test / unstable though. Is this supposed to be rolling right now? And in the end, how are the security updates? Because nothing was clear to me. Cheers
Perfect!!! Just what the Debian guys haven't promised 😀 Well, about the updates I don't know how it will be.
Hehehehe I think it was time to install the third hard drive, I had annoyance to open the case but good.
It will surely be worth it man 😀
I have a question and it is the following; that this will affect the LMDE repos?
Opa, an official rolling version of Debian. Finally, a worthy rival for Arch appeared 😀
While I have no plans to abandon Arch anytime soon, Debian would become a serious competitor in this field.
Especially since so far the only thing I don't like about Arch is that there are many packages that I use that are only available in AUR, while in Debian they are probably already precompiled.
But Debian is not KISS
True, Debian is not KISS, but not everyone is interested in a distro being KISS, but simply having all the programs up to date.
Anyway, for the moment I'm staying with Arch, I have it very well personalized to my liking, and I don't want to start over. Q_Q
But Debian CUT, depending on how the project progresses, I will take it into account for later when I change the distro to a netbook that I have around: P ~
I don't really think it's so Rolling to compete with Arch. In Arch you will always have the latest of the latest, and in Debian CUT it won't always be.
Thanks, good info.
Just a small limitation, experimental is not a debian branch, it is a repo ... the branches as such are only stable, testing and sid
And good to try this new CUT to see how
Pure Life
@elav, could you explain to a newbie how to use the Debian Cut mini iso.