On Sun, 18 Jun 2023 at 16:16, Colin McGregor via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
I assume I'm not the only Debian GNU/Linux fan here. So, just of note Debian 12 (code name: bookworm (for the non-Debian fans let me note that major Debian releases get code names taken from characters in the "Toy Story" series of movies)) was released earlier this month. I have upgraded my main desktop and laptop computers from Debian 11 (code name : bullseye) to Debian 12 without any significant issues.
A review of Debian 12 can be seen here :
I've upgraded something like six of about 10 personal (Debian 11) machines. The upgrade process is the easiest and smoothest that Debian's managed yet. I haven't tried a new install yet, but if you have a Debian 11 system, my experience so far suggests that the upgrade process will go smoothly. I was annoyed to find that this doesn't - exactly - bump the Firefox version. You remain trapped in the ESR version, and even though it's a newer ESR release, it's still FF v102 which Slack will be disabling in September. We use Slack heavily at work - I could survive without it running in the browser on my Linux machines, but I'd much rather not. Further research yielded the suggestion that version 114 will become ESR in August ... I hope Debian will let that out the gate before Slack's September deadline, but I wonder if they will. They don't like big version changes in the middle of a release. I guess I'll be peering into the backports repository if that's what happens ... (don't suggest flatpak or snaps, thanks - I avoid those when possible). The only other thing I was really concerned about with Debian's versioning was Strapi, another work thing. Debian 11 had the ancient version 12 which the developers at work refused to work with. As their systems administrator, that caused me major headaches. Debian has now jumped to version 18 of Strapi. Long release cycles are a real mixed blessing ... <sigh> -- Giles https://www.gilesorr.com/ gilesorr@gmail.com