Re: Beginning of the End for Wheezy [sigh!]
On Tue, 19 Apr 2016, Jimmy Johnson wrote:
> On 04/19/2016 12:49 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote:
> > On 04/16/2016 03:27 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote:
> >>
> >> Much to my regret (and others, too, I'm sure), yesterday, on 15
> >> April 2016, the beginning of the end began for Wheezy. Google, as
> >> announced months ago, finally ceased support for its browser on
> >> Wheezy. I double checked just to be sure, and in the course of
> >> that check also discovered "official" Debian support for Wheezy
> >> will cease in a little over a week on 26 April 2016 -- just 3
> >> years after its release. However, it will automatically enter LTS
> >> until 2018 at which time all support ceases and EOL "officially"
> >> occurs.
> >>
> >> Well, at least I have time to look for an alternative. Maybe,
> >> Devuan will be viable by then, but I doubt it. Or Debian will
> >> offer a choice of inits as a standard option during installs on
> >> future releases, but I very much doubt it.
> >>
> >> B
> >
> > Ubuntu using upstart,
> > trusty 14.04 LTS Release Date 2014-04-17 End Of Life 2019-04
> > precise 12.04 LTS Release Date 2012-04-26 End Of Life 2017-04
>
> Some other systems to look at are, Kali Linux https://www.kali.org/ -
> EXE GNU/Linux http://exegnulinux.net/ - Q40S http://q4os.org/ I have
> them all installed. Some of these are built from bootstrap and are
> not remasters of other systems, all are ".deb" systems.
Thanks. I'll take a look.
B
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