..trixie? Who decides these distribution names? Kare On Tue, 29 Jul 2025, Colin McGregor via Talk wrote:
My bad, I was looking at some old stuff... There is currently a planned release date for "Trixie", so barring some huge strange / bizarre last minute issue "Trixie" will be out August 9th, 2025.
On Tue, Jul 29, 2025 at 5:55 PM Colin McGregor <colin.mc151@gmail.com> wrote:
Below is a story about where Debian 13 (aka: "Trixie") stands regarding the Y2038 issue. In quick summary the Y2038 issue is that time in the current stable Debian release (and to the best of my knowledge all other Linux distributions) stores time as a 32 bit number with the number of seconds since January 1st, 1970 AD. After 03:14:07 UTC on January 19, 2038 you may have Linux systems thinking it is 1970.
"Trixie" will be the first Debian release to use 64 bit time. so they will be kicking the issue of running out of time from 2038 to 40,000,000,000 A.D. which should be good enough for most applications :-) . Trixie is in final testing with a final release date not yet announced, so this is in the "coming soon" class...
https://lowendbox.com/blog/starting-to-catch-up-linux-finally-addresses-the-...
For anyone who is saying to themselves this doesn't matter to me because I run ..."<<Blah>>"... Linux remember that a bunch of other Linux distributions, such as Ubuntu and Raspberry Pi OS are based off of Debian, so this change will ...echo... well outside just Debian.
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