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Debian 9 (Stretch) Will Be Released Today - Ecks - 06-18-2017 The Debian Project has been liveblogging today's release of Debian 9 (Stretch) using the Twitter hashtag #releasingstretch. Some of the announcements: The oldstable suite (wheezy) has now been renamed to oldoldstable Debian jessie now been renamed to oldstable! The Debian stretch suites have now been renamed to stable! The draft debian-devel-announce post is ready, archive docs are being cleaned up This release is named after that purple octopus in Toy Story 3, and more tantalizing tidbits of information keep appearing on Debian's micronews site: At least 1436 people and 18 teams contributed to Debian in 2017 Stretch has 25,357 source packages with 9,808,465 source files There were 13 different themes proposed to be the official Debian stretch theme Debian Stretch ships with the free mathematical software SageMath, you can install it with apt During the stretch development, 101 contributors became Debian Developers, and 94 more become Debian Maintainers Debian Stretch will ship with the first release of the Debian Astro Pure Blend [for astronomers] Debian Popularity Contest gathers anonymous statistics about Debian packages usage from about 195,000 reports To Learn More Visit : https://twitter.com/debian RE: Debian 9 (Stretch) Will Be Released Today - Num5kull - 06-18-2017 Yeay waves a little flag in celebration. Cant wait to load it up deb is my 1 out of 5 best os's RE: Debian 9 (Stretch) Will Be Released Today - Blink - 06-19-2017 Whenever I use Debian, I just set my repos to "stable" so it's rolling. Fixed release is bleh. One day they will run out of toy story characters RE: Debian 9 (Stretch) Will Be Released Today - Oni - 06-19-2017 Hooray for Debian! RE: Debian 9 (Stretch) Will Be Released Today - mothered - 06-19-2017 A lot of time, effort and commitment has been generated Into It's release. It looks very promising. Here's a little more Info: https://www.debian.org/News/2017/20170617