Debian 5.0 Lenny Released

mikesd · 2009-02-15 11:38:14

My second linux distro of choice, Debian, has just released Debian 5.0 (Lenny). I have been runing a couple of Lenny servers for a month or two now with no problems. Check it out at debian.org

Exitium · 2009-02-15 11:57:44

"Savor this moment guys, a Debian release is like a Solar eclipse, you are lucky if you get to see one in your lifetime!"

http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?s … d=26862141

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Nezmer · 2009-02-15 15:42:59

Debian Sid(unstable) was my distro before Arch . I lived the Perl 5.10 upgrade , the python 2.5 upgrade and others .
When the developers were advised not to push risky upgrades to Sid because the packages will end up in Lenny I switched and I'm glad I did .

I wish the Debian guys good luck (If they need any) .

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phisphere · 2009-02-15 18:10:10

installed lenny kde 3.5 version on my office machine today and it seems to be very fast and stable.
great stuff.

aglarond · 2009-02-15 23:40:48

I've been using Debian Testing (Lenny) for months now on major production servers. It's solid.

I definitely prefer Arch on my desktop, though. I'm fine with slow releases for servers, but not on my everyday workstation.

-mS

sand_man · 2009-02-16 00:03:22

Exitium wrote:

"Savor this moment guys, a Debian release is like a Solar eclipse, you are lucky if you get to see one in your lifetime!"
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?s … d=26862141

lol That's funny but how often are they actually scheduled?

Ranguvar · 2009-02-16 00:27:19

sand_man wrote:

Exitium wrote:
"Savor this moment guys, a Debian release is like a Solar eclipse, you are lucky if you get to see one in your lifetime!"
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?s … d=26862141
lol That's funny but how often are they actually scheduled?

It's not a fixed schedule.

mantus · 2009-02-16 00:47:15

Exitium wrote:

"Savor this moment guys, a Debian release is like a Solar eclipse, you are lucky if you get to see one in your lifetime!"

haha. that made me laugh.

But i have no problem with them taking their time though. Will rather have things stable then bleeding edge for my server.

1LordAnubis · 2009-02-16 01:09:01

wow, I ran lenny for a long time... before i switched to arch
great for servers though

evr · 2009-02-17 05:40:40

i've been playing with lenny today. it's pretty solid, and fast. I usually always use debian for running servers

mikesd · 2009-02-17 07:12:31

aglarond wrote:

I've been using Debian Testing (Lenny) for months now on major production servers. It's solid.
I definitely prefer Arch on my desktop, though. I'm fine with slow releases for servers, but not on my everyday workstation.
-mS

Yeah, know the feeling. I do pacman -Syu daily on my workstation and would feel uncomfortable not upgrading for any time longer than a couple of days, a week at the outside. With Debian though I can just do an apt-get update, apt-get upgrade once a week without having too many packages to install. Debian is a good distro but whenever I have tried it as a desktop I always end up having to install multiple applications from source to get the functionality I need. Seemed to defeat the purpose. It is great for servers though.

doorknob60 · 2009-02-26 06:35:24

I like Debian Lenny, especially now that you can install LXDE by default. This will become my distro of choice for old computers where I want things to just work without messing with it (that's what Arch is for), or to recommend to people with old computers. Or my i586 lappy

toad · 2009-02-26 08:51:37

Debian rocks, always has. But they still insist on doing "releases". Releases suck big time

Obi-Lan · 2009-03-01 19:28:02

Staying in fixed releases and not going to rolling release gives server maintainers easier life.

thunderogg · 2009-03-01 21:07:49

I've been playing a some weeks with Lenny, but ran into so many problems trying to install Xfce that I gave up. Ex: gamin wasn't installed from the Xfce CD, I didn't get anti-aliased fonts in Conky, Conky overwrote normal windows when updating, Iceweasel components installed with the wrong permissions to name a few. Maybe it's me, but I feel Arch is more solid!

kolbycrouch · 2009-03-03 02:06:14

toad wrote:

Debian rocks, always has. But they still insist on doing "releases". Releases suck big time

haha i havnt been able do go to any release based distros because of arch, thankfully debians unstable branch isnt what id call unstable really and its almost a rolling release
i was running sid as a desktop for many months with no real problems

Ranguvar · 2009-03-03 03:35:44

Yeah... if I ever grew too lazy or too busy to keep up with Arch/Slackware/Funtoo/*BSD, I'd switch to either Debian Sid or Sidux likely

b9anders · 2009-03-03 10:18:54

sidux is very good. Before I went really into arch, it was the distro I used for the longest time.

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