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The Debian Project https://www.debian.org/
Join the LTS project to help shape Wheezy and Jessie LTS
April 24th, 2015 https://www.debian.org/News/2015/20150424
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Almost a year after the birth of the Debian Long Term Support (LTS)
project, Squeeze LTS can be considered a success. Thanks go to the
many volunteers and sponsors! Debian 6 "Squeeze" has seen more than 200
security uploads since the start of its extended support period. The
most widely used packages have been fixed in a timely fashion and many
organizations can thus safely rely on the continued maintenance of
Squeeze LTS.
Given this experience, we are confident that Debian 7 "Wheezy" and
Debian 8 "Jessie" will benefit from Long Term Support.
However, some restrictions in coverage had to be made for Squeeze LTS.
For example, only x86 PCs (amd64 and i386) are supported, and a number
of popular packages are unsupported. For example, you cannot run a
Xen dom0 or a KVM host with Squeeze, and there isn't support for
graphical browsers. The current team resources are only enough to keep
up with the observed workload, and would not be sufficient to extend
this further.
Thus, if you want Wheezy LTS to have a better coverage for such use
cases and for less popular packages, please consider helping the Debian
LTS team, either with developer time or with funding.
This summer, during DebConf 15 in Heidelberg, the Debian LTS team
and the Debian security team will re-assess the level of support for the
project and will make plans for Wheezy LTS (Jessie LTS still has a few
years ahead of it). Now is the time to show your support!
We thank all the Debian LTS contributors (Andrew Bartlett, Aurélien Jarno,
Balint Reczey, Ben Hutchings, Charles Plessy, Christoph Berg, Christoph Biedl,
Colin Watson, Didier Raboud, Dominic Hargreaves, Emmanuel Bouthenot, Eric
Dorland, Evgeni Golov, Florian Weimer, Gregor Herrmann, Holger Levsen, Ivo de
Decker, Jo Shields, Kurt Roeckx, Luciano Bello, Mathias Behrle, Mathieu
Parent, Matt Palmer, Michael Meskes, Michael Vogt, Mike Gabriel, Moritz
Muehlenhoff, Nguyen Cong, Osamu Aoki, Paul Gevers, Peter Palfrader, Raphael
Geissert, Raphaël Hertzog, Romain Françoise, Salvatore Bonaccorso, Sébastien
Delafond, Tanguy Ortolo, Thijs Kinkhorst, Thorsten Alteholz) and the
organizations that let them do so: Catalyst, credativ, Électricité de France,
Toshiba and Univention.
Thanks also go to all the sponsors who supported the project through
Freexian's offer: The Positive Internet, David Ayers - IntarS Austria,
Blablacar, Domeneshop AS, Gandi SAS, Trollweb Solutions, Université Lille 3,
Bitfolk LTD, Daevel SARL, Evolix, FOSSter, Freeside Internet Service, Gree,
Inc., Greenbone Networks GmbH, Intevation GmbH, Linuxhotel GmbH, Megaspace
Internet Services GmbH, MyTux, NUMLOG, Nantes Métropole, Offensive Security,
Seznam.cz, a.s. and WinGo AG.
About Debian
------------
The Debian Project was founded in 1993 by Ian Murdock to be a truly free
community project. Since then the project has grown to be one of the
largest and most influential projects. Thousands of volunteers from all
over the world work together to create and maintain Debian software.
Available in 70 languages, and supporting a huge range of computer
types, Debian calls itself the "universal operating system".
Contact Information
-------------------
For further information, please visit the Debian web pages at
https://www.debian.org/ or send mail to <debian-lts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>.
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The Debian Project https://www.debian.org/
Join the LTS project to help shape Wheezy and Jessie LTS
April 24th, 2015 https://www.debian.org/News/2015/20150424
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Almost a year after the birth of the Debian Long Term Support (LTS)
project, Squeeze LTS can be considered a success. Thanks go to the
many volunteers and sponsors! Debian 6 "Squeeze" has seen more than 200
security uploads since the start of its extended support period. The
most widely used packages have been fixed in a timely fashion and many
organizations can thus safely rely on the continued maintenance of
Squeeze LTS.
Given this experience, we are confident that Debian 7 "Wheezy" and
Debian 8 "Jessie" will benefit from Long Term Support.
However, some restrictions in coverage had to be made for Squeeze LTS.
For example, only x86 PCs (amd64 and i386) are supported, and a number
of popular packages are unsupported. For example, you cannot run a
Xen dom0 or a KVM host with Squeeze, and there isn't support for
graphical browsers. The current team resources are only enough to keep
up with the observed workload, and would not be sufficient to extend
this further.
Thus, if you want Wheezy LTS to have a better coverage for such use
cases and for less popular packages, please consider helping the Debian
LTS team, either with developer time or with funding.
This summer, during DebConf 15 in Heidelberg, the Debian LTS team
and the Debian security team will re-assess the level of support for the
project and will make plans for Wheezy LTS (Jessie LTS still has a few
years ahead of it). Now is the time to show your support!
We thank all the Debian LTS contributors (Andrew Bartlett, Aurélien Jarno,
Balint Reczey, Ben Hutchings, Charles Plessy, Christoph Berg, Christoph Biedl,
Colin Watson, Didier Raboud, Dominic Hargreaves, Emmanuel Bouthenot, Eric
Dorland, Evgeni Golov, Florian Weimer, Gregor Herrmann, Holger Levsen, Ivo de
Decker, Jo Shields, Kurt Roeckx, Luciano Bello, Mathias Behrle, Mathieu
Parent, Matt Palmer, Michael Meskes, Michael Vogt, Mike Gabriel, Moritz
Muehlenhoff, Nguyen Cong, Osamu Aoki, Paul Gevers, Peter Palfrader, Raphael
Geissert, Raphaël Hertzog, Romain Françoise, Salvatore Bonaccorso, Sébastien
Delafond, Tanguy Ortolo, Thijs Kinkhorst, Thorsten Alteholz) and the
organizations that let them do so: Catalyst, credativ, Électricité de France,
Toshiba and Univention.
Thanks also go to all the sponsors who supported the project through
Freexian's offer: The Positive Internet, David Ayers - IntarS Austria,
Blablacar, Domeneshop AS, Gandi SAS, Trollweb Solutions, Université Lille 3,
Bitfolk LTD, Daevel SARL, Evolix, FOSSter, Freeside Internet Service, Gree,
Inc., Greenbone Networks GmbH, Intevation GmbH, Linuxhotel GmbH, Megaspace
Internet Services GmbH, MyTux, NUMLOG, Nantes Métropole, Offensive Security,
Seznam.cz, a.s. and WinGo AG.
About Debian
------------
The Debian Project was founded in 1993 by Ian Murdock to be a truly free
community project. Since then the project has grown to be one of the
largest and most influential projects. Thousands of volunteers from all
over the world work together to create and maintain Debian software.
Available in 70 languages, and supporting a huge range of computer
types, Debian calls itself the "universal operating system".
Contact Information
-------------------
For further information, please visit the Debian web pages at
https://www.debian.org/ or send mail to <debian-lts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>.
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