After 1 year, 9 months, and 28 days of development, the Debian project is proud to present its new stable version 12 (code name “bookworm”).

“bookworm” will be supported for the next 5 years thanks to the combined work of the Debian Security team and the Debian Long Term Support team.

  • neo (he/him)English
    10•1 year ago

    I, for one, am pleased to see that you can optionally turn on nonfree firmware should you need it. The FSF my bloviate, but this was truly needed for those computing at home

    • @[email protected]English
      8•1 year ago

      It is very sad that this has become necessary, though. GPU and Wi-Fi vendors have delivered a serious setback on the path to computing freedom.

      • neo (he/him)English
        6•1 year ago

        I think we would all vastly prefer that our computers worked just fine with 100% free code.

      • @[email protected]English
        4•1 year ago

        I guess we need open hardware for open drivers to be the norm.

        This quite stupidly has some geopolitical implications as well, if “anyone” can manufacture decent GPUs, there goes the Western chip-making monopoly.

        • @[email protected]English
          2•1 year ago

          I don’t think so. Open source hardware only specifies what the hardware can do in terms of instructions, not in which quality in terms of speed or energy efficiency.

          Producing high-quality hardware would still mean that you need the means of production and that will still be the same few people as now.

          It would mean tho that the firmware and drivers will be open source.

  • @[email protected]English
    2•1 year ago

    Has anyone updated yet? Any pitfalls? I’m looking to update my server and always dread the failed reboot…

    • Jure RepincOPEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      A friend of mine has upgraded his non-server machine with KDE Plasma desktop and so far is happy with the upgrade.

    • JustEnoughDucksEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      Updated my server on Sunday. Completely fine and no issues!

      I finally don’t have issues while updating with having to reinstall ZFS from backports for version 2+ also, so that is nice. Justworks™

  • @[email protected]English
    1•1 year ago

    A great release, missed the announcement but happy that I don’t need to be on sid anymore as old stable was a no-go with my laptop. Happily downgraded yesterday.