Debian 8.0 Jessie Released

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Debian 8.0 Jessie Released

As expected, Debian 8.0 "Jessie" was officially released today after being in development for two years...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Debian-8-Jessie-Released

[dungeon]

Cheers

[xeekei]

I will upgrade the backup server later today. Finally, the last non-systemd machine in my home will be gone.

[Ilfirin]

Xfce 4.12

Do anyone know how to get Xfce 4.12 on this? Can't find good backport repo.

[waxhead]

Upgraders beware

Be warned that if you upgrade to jessie /usr should not be on a separate filesystem (according to the systemd error message).
It can be a bit tricky recover from this if you root filesystem does not have the available space, however I was lucky!

Happy upgrading

[opensource]

Cheers

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[oleid]

Be warned that if you upgrade to jessie /usr should not be on a separate filesystem (according to the systemd error message).
It can be a bit tricky recover from this if you root filesystem does not have the available space, however I was lucky!

Happy upgrading

Out of curiosity : why did you install using separate /usr? I can think of good reasons for a separate /var and /home, but /usr?

[waxhead]

Out of curiosity : why did you install using separate /usr? I can think of good reasons for a separate /var and /home, but /usr?

Out of madness ... joking aside - the reason is that /usr is kept on a raid1 for redundancy reasons.

[pininety]

Be warned that if you upgrade to jessie /usr should not be on a separate filesystem (according to the systemd error message).
It can be a bit tricky recover from this if you root filesystem does not have the available space, however I was lucky!

Happy upgrading

http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken/

Says it all I think.

[stevenc]

Out of curiosity : why did you install using separate /usr? I can think of good reasons for a separate /var and /home, but /usr?

separate /usr has quite a long hstory, probably since when OS installs were done from a tarball; there are still some uses for it today

/usr tends to be rather large but compresses well
/usr is only modified for package updates, it could be read-only at other times, on a live CD for example
/usr contains easily replaceable data and may not need to be on redundant storage
/usr could be identical across many systems, you may want to store only one copy of it and NFS-export it out to many machines; or bind-mount it into many containers