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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.

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[–] neo@lemmy.comfysnug.space 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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@lemmy.comfysnug.space 6 points 2 years ago

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

[–] maynarkh@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years 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.

[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago
[–] joelthelion@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] JRepin@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

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