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Debian 5.0 Reaches End-of-Life on February 2012

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The Debian secuirty team, through Moritz Muehlenhoff, announced on December 6th that the Debian 5.0 (Lenny) operating system will no longer be supported started with February 6th, 2012.

"This is an advance notice that security support for Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (code name "lenny") will be terminated in two months. The Debian project released Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 alias "squeeze" on the 6th of February 2011."

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cr ·
...which is based on Lenny. Not sure where we (those on my LAN) go from here, as Mepis 8.5 and Mepis 11.0 are KDE4. Maybe Debian/Trinity. I'll be doing some evaluating, looking for a new standard rollout for our aged hardware which doesn't disrupt established KDE3.5 workspace workflows.
kennethh ·
Sorry to see you stray from Mepis it's a great (if not greatest) under-rated distro. Would it not be easier to just keep what you got installed until Mepis rolls out a new release? I remember having debian etch installed after a year of end of life. I updated certain applications myself of course.

Just hold back on the whole update madness and update at your leisure, when of course Mepis kicks out a new spin--update away.

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