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Debian 8 (Jessie) was released in April 2015, using systemd as the new init system. [70] Debian 9 (Stretch) was released in June 2017, with nftables as a replacement for iptables, support for Flatpak apps, and MariaDB as the replacement for MySQL. [71] [72]
Debian Unstable, known as "Sid", contains all the latest packages as soon as they are available, and follows a rolling-release model. [6]Once a package has been in Debian Unstable for 2–10 days (depending on the urgency of the upload), doesn't introduce critical bugs and doesn't break other packages (among other conditions), it is included in Debian Testing, also known as "next-stable".
win32-loader (officially Debian-Installer Loader) [6] is a component of the Debian Linux distribution that runs on Windows and has the ability to load the actual Debian installer either from the network (as in the version in an official website) or from CD-ROM media (as in the version included in Jessie CD images).
This decision prompted some Debian community members to start a fork of Debian without systemd. [8] Instead of continuing the Debian practice of using Toy Story character names as release codenames, [9] Devuan aliases its releases using planet names. The first stable release shared the Debian 8 codename Jessie.
A Debian Pure Blend is a project completely inside of Debian targeting a server or a desktop installation in very broad and general terms. A Debian Pure Blend aims to cover interests of specialised users, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] who might be children, lawyers, medical staff, visually impaired people, certain academic fields, etc.
Some distributions like Debian tend to separate tools into different packages – usually stable release, development release, documentation and debug. Also counting the source package number varies. For debian and rpm based entries it is just the base to produce binary packages, so the total number of packages is the number of binary packages.
Between October 2013 and February 2014, a long debate among the Debian Technical Committee occurred on the Debian mailing list, [23] discussing which init system to use as the default in Debian 8 "jessie", and culminating in a decision in favor of systemd.
Kanotix Spitfire is based on Debian 8 ("Jessie"). Several Kanotix-LinuxTag images for 32 and 64 bit were offered for download. [30] After the Release of Debian GNU/Linux 8.0 (2015-04-26) a reset of the "nightly builds" with the official Debian kernel-version 3.16.7 started Kanotix-Spitfire as a "rolling release" of the current stable Kanotix.