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Debian Open Source Linux

Debian 12 'Bookworm' Released (debian.org) 62

Posted by EditorDavid from the Deb-and-Ian dept.
Slashdot reader e065c8515d206cb0e190 shared the big announcement from Debian.org: After 1 year, 9 months, and 28 days of development, the Debian project is proud to present its new stable version 12 (code name bookworm).

bookworm will be supported for the next 5 years thanks to the combined work of the Debian Security team and the Debian Long Term Support team...

This release contains over 11,089 new packages for a total count of 64,419 packages, while over 6,296 packages have been removed as obsolete. 43,254 packages were updated in this release. The overall disk usage for bookworm is 365,016,420 kB (365 GB), and is made up of 1,341,564,204 lines of code.

bookworm has more translated man pages than ever thanks to our translators who have made man-pages available in multiple languages such as: Czech, Danish, Greek, Finnish, Indonesian, Macedonian, Norwegian (Bokmål), Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese. All of the systemd man pages are now completely available in German.

The Debian Med Blend introduces a new package: shiny-server which simplifies scientific web applications using R. We have kept to our efforts of providing Continuous Integration support for Debian Med team packages. Install the metapackages at version 3.8.x for Debian bookworm.

The Debian Astro Blend continues to provide a one-stop solution for professional astronomers, enthusiasts, and hobbyists with updates to almost all versions of the software packages in the blend. astap and planetary-system-stacker help with image stacking and astrometry resolution. openvlbi, the open source correlator, is now included.

Support for Secure Boot on ARM64 has been reintroduced: users of UEFI-capable ARM64 hardware can boot with Secure Boot mode enabled to take full advantage of the security feature.
9to5Linux has screenshots, and highlights some new features: Debian 12 also brings read/write support for APFS (Apple File System) with the apfsprogs and apfs-dkms utilities, a new tool called ntfs2btrfs that lets you convert NTFS drives to Btrfs, a new malloc implementation called mimalloc, a new kernel SMB server called ksmbd-tools, and support for the merged-usr root file system layout...

This release also includes completely new artwork called Emerald, designed (once again) by Juliette Taka. New fonts are also present in this major Debian release, along with a new fnt command-line tool for accessing 1,500 DFSG-compliant fonts.
Debian 12 "bookworm" ships with several desktop environments, including:
  • Gnome 43,
  • KDE Plasma 5.27,
  • LXDE 11,
  • LXQt 1.2.0,
  • MATE 1.26,
  • Xfce 4.18

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  • First boxen (Score:4, Informative)

    by skogs ( 628589 ) on Saturday June 10, 2023 @11:27PM (#63592572) Journal

    First boxen updated smoothly. Total time maybe 12 minutes.
    Debian is always perfect.

    • Re:First boxen (Score:5, Interesting)

      by lsllll ( 830002 ) on Saturday June 10, 2023 @11:36PM (#63592582)
      I've tried many distros. Started with Mandriva, moved to Fedora, Ubuntu, and now Debian. Along the way I tried different distros that were based on Debian, like Parrot just because of the installed software, but they were just experimental. Debian has been completely solid for the past few years and it doesn't come with the baggage Ubuntu comes with. Looking forward to some upgrade.
      • You need to try Rocky. This is *almost* like someone bombing Redmond and giving RHEL the finger at the same time!

        • Re:First boxen (Score:4, Interesting)

          by lsllll ( 830002 ) on Sunday June 11, 2023 @01:14AM (#63592664)
          I supported CentOS before Red Hat nerfed it and still do RHEL at my largest client (Don't know WHAT they see in RH), but I will not personally support RH or any derivative after the stunt they pulled on CentOS [arstechnica.com].

          • Re: (Score:2)

            by rklrkl ( 554527 )

            Using a free clone of RHEL like AlmaLinux or Rocky (am I the only one who doesn't like that name for an enterprise distro - put that in contract bids and it makes you sound like it's either unstable or created by a punch-drunk boxer) still makes sense today. It's still the only way to get 10 years of free OS support for a major version of Linux distro, which is useful if you're an SME. You'll note I don't mention Oracle Linux here, because Oracle are evil personified.

            As for Debian, it is probably the most i

            • Re: (Score:2)

              by sjames ( 1099 )

              Red Hat's encounter with the foot gun was exactly what I needed to convince a few corporate sites to begin transitioning to Ubuntu.

              I've seen that some fairly important engineering software that used to be firmly in the RHEL as THE supported OS has now begun officially supporting Ubuntu and some even demoted RHEL on the roadmap to 'if feasible'.

              That'll sure help when moving between major releases. I am quite tired of RHEL's just blast it to the stone age and reinstall from scratch plan. What do they think

            • Re: (Score:2)

              by kriston ( 7886 )

              With the CentOS 8 shenanigans from a few years back, I wouldn't be surprised if it's gained a lot of server market share from that Red Hat foot-shooting incident, probably in its Ubuntu Server guise.

              An organization I work with are actively rehosting thousands of services from CentOS 7 directly to Ubuntu Server LTS. There's literally no good economic reason to convert to RHEL from CentOS even with Red Hat's recently released conversion script.

              I sometimes advocated RHEL because of its customer support structure, but I can't remember using Red Hat support or their professional services at any organization I've worked with in 30 years except in the very early days of glibc pthreads.

        • Actually using something wholly not rhel is more of a middle finger.

          They can still point at alma and Rocky numbers as "pretty much our market share" when it comes to marketing.

      • Came for the stability, stayed for the easy upgrades.

      • Debian has been completely solid

        It's a very simple and well understood trade-off. When you choose Debian you're choosing slow and stable development that is unlikely to go wrong over the alternative: cutting edge.

        Debian is a money maker. If you value your income or don't want to screw around with something Debian is your choice. If you want a cutting edge desktop or a highly up to date with all the latest things server then Debian is not a good choice.

        it doesn't come with the baggage Ubuntu comes with

        Ubuntu has it's place, that place is different from Debian's.

        • Debian has been completely solid

          If you want a cutting edge desktop or a highly up to date with all the latest things server then Debian is not a good choice.

          Well you can stay on Debian Testing for that.

    • Re: (Score:2, Redundant)

      by Anne Thwacks ( 531696 )
      Debian is always perfect.

      Or would be if it was not for SystemD.

      When will Devuan track this change?

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by Dwedit ( 232252 )

        Devuan had a bug which caused the "root" account to have an empty password when you wanted that account disabled.

      • I have the Devuan version of Debian 12 working on at least 2 machines, both are Intel SoC (3455) platforms with Intel SoC video. No issues with those upgrades.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by msk ( 6205 )

        Devuan has been tracking "Bookworm" for quite a while. The stable release of Devuan "Daedalus" (the "Bookworm" equivalent), will likely be very soon.

        I have been keeping my Devuan boxes up to date with Daedalus during its phase as the Testing branch, and the flow of packages has reduced to a trickle. I'd expect the Stable release of Daedalus any day or week now.

    • It's almost perfect. I look forward to a new release of Devuan, which has gotten a little long in the tooth (the release version being based on Debian 11 Bullseye.) It smooths out the pain points of removing systemd. I just kept running into little systemd problems that were a hassle to fix and got tired of it, and the boot time improvement was for me personally totally worthless because I want to see the boot messages. I know, I'm funny that way.

      I got pipewire out of -testing so that wireplumber would work

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by kriston ( 7886 )

      My VM running Bookworm didn't survive the night. I'm still hopeful for this release.

  • Huzzah! (Score:3)

    by mrflash818 ( 226638 ) on Saturday June 10, 2023 @11:30PM (#63592580) Homepage Journal

    Will upgrade my Debian systems over the Summer, it seems.

    • I've barely finished upgrading my systems from 10 to 11 :( Now I get to do it all over again.

      • I've barely finished upgrading my systems from 10 to 11 :( Now I get to do it all over again.

        More caffeine. You need MORE caffeine ! /s

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by dddux ( 3656447 )

        Me too. Well, I upgraded to 11 in Oct last year. This one will be on hold for me for at least a couple of months until the polish it a bit, because I love having a completely stable and reliable OS. That's why I went with Debian 10 years ago. Interesting that I still use the same installation (Stretch, I think), just upgraded it over the time. Debian really is a great distribution.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by antdude ( 79039 )

      Yeah, same when I have downtimes in case any issues come up with stable. Also, this give Debian to work out its issues. I read it doesn't have grub?!

  • Time To Fire Up Grandpa (Score:3)

    by zenlessyank ( 748553 ) on Sunday June 11, 2023 @12:01AM (#63592604)

    Been needing an excuse to change out OpenSuse. This looks like the one for me.

    • For no particular reason, SuSE was the first distro I ever got into (8.1 back in 2003). I used it primarily until some time around ~10.1 or 10.2 (OpenSuSE and played a bit with SLES/SLED evaluation versions). I feel like it was pretty accessible and well put together (especially from a system configuration/administration side , YaST2 is pretty decent for someone coming over from Windows), but Debian eventually prevailed for a variety of reasons. Not the least of these was the package management. RPM seemed

      • I was mostly a CentOS user for the longest time but then IBM bought Redhat and then killed off CentOS on a nice sunny day and so I moved over to OpenSuSE because frankly I had never used it and wanted to see how it was outside opinions aside. I liked it for the most part, but has a couple of things that kind of piss me off with the wi-fi weirdness and I have kind of wanted to go back to Debian since I used to use it a lot in VM's. I'm not the super proficient Linux user but I have been 'playing' with it sin

  • Secure Boot was never a security feature. It is a digital swiss cheese from security perspective. The only advantage I would have - be required to register my kernel at someone I already don't trust before it is allowed to run. No advantage for me whatsoever and a huge timewaster for countless Linux users. And some unnecessary expenses for IT departments when a laptop can't be made secure.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by bn-7bc ( 909819 )
      Well a chain of trust always needs a root, Maybe that could be the UN, they could sign every member country's cert, or they could aliso directly sign certain essential peaces of sw directly (like the linux kernel. Would that satisfy your trust issue?

  • I know it can be done, but it would be nice at install time if Debian could have an option to use the TPM for LUKS unlocking, with a second slot being a recovery password. This would make dealing with remote servers a lot easier in a number of places where FDE is a must, and using a TPM is a lot easier than having to SSH in via the initial ramdrive image, and do a cryptroot-unlock.

  • I'm glad to see APFS support in a mainstream Linux distribution. It has taken ~8 years, but this can be a useful filesystem to have. If you take the fact that it doesn't have file checksumming, it does have all the features an enterprise filesystem should have, although compression, deduplication, and bit-rot detection would be nice.

    I wonder how it will perform compared to XFS though, as XFS doesn't have any of those features, but APFS does have snapshotting available, not to mention built in encryption.

  • OMG (Score:3)

    by CoolDiscoRex ( 5227177 ) on Sunday June 11, 2023 @05:52AM (#63592888) Homepage

    Slashdot reader e065c8515d206cb0e190 shared the big announcement from Debian.org:

    omg, e065c8515d206cb0e190? Seriously? As in THE e065c8515d206cb0e190???

  • I've been upgrading internal-only machines from Bullseye to Bookworm during the RC series and it cleared up a few lingering bugs from Bullseye (e.g. systemd anonymous users, mounts, Xen install supoort) without introducing any new bugs.

    I saw maybe 3 things I had to ifdef in my puppet manifests so far. Not bad. One was on a RPi400 which needs root=LABEL=foo to boot reliably. Weird. /dev/nvme0p1 or whatever isn't deterministic? Workaround is fine for me - stock Debian is preferred to Raspbian for sysadmin

    • Probably smarter to use root=UUID=...

      I used to use labels, then I screwed myself over one time by reusing one accidentally

  • Thanks debian! (Score:3)

    by williamyf ( 227051 ) on Sunday June 11, 2023 @09:12AM (#63593134)

    While I do not personally use Debian, some Distros which I do use* are debian based, so thank you to the debian comunity for the effort.

    * CBPP, Zorin, Kali & antiX

  • Debian is a solid distribution by virtue of willing to do the boring work. Other distributions get bogged down with trying to be different and innovate. Which ends up with a user base unsure what to expect next upgrade cycle, with their traditional experience left abandoned.

    It's great to have innovation available, but it'd be nice to recognize the break from tradition and make clear by new branding. Wayland being a great example of branding and design to let people choose whether to use it. Gnome and Ub

  • systemd man pages (Score:1, Troll)

    by PPH ( 736903 )

    now completely available in German

    Won't matter. Poettering still won't fix it.

  • I just installed on my $60 Black Friday Amazon Celeron solution looking for a problem mini PC. It replaced Mint, now what? I guess Iâ(TM)ll have to learn Debianâ(TM)s quirks. I should be somewhat prepared using the green OS for years.

  • Pro Tip: Any less user hostile desktop than Gnome and you've got a reasonable Linux system. W

  • The process was nice enough to remove my windows partition from grub. This should be a fun fix. How to add the partition back into grub when they don't want you to edit the config manually.

  • That will do Debian, that will do...

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