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Debian Bookworm becomes Stable on June 10. I've been using it for a while as the Testing release and it's pretty good. I'll roll over into Stable and after a couple of weeks switch to Trixie (the next Testing.) I run it on a non-mission critical old laptop.

 

https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/05/debian_12/

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Bookworm is now the stable Debian 12 release. The non-free firmware is now in a separate repo so it's important to add non-free-firmware as a separate item in the sources.list file.

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Release Notes for Debian 12 (bookworm), 64-bit PC

 

The installer will ask if you wish to add non-free-firmware to sources. Most likely you will need it. If doing an in-place upgrade, you may need to add it.

 

I have a Bookworm installed from the RC, will slowly transition to using it as daily driver. I don't usually do in-place upgrades as I see it as spring cleaning to remove the plethora of tweaks and packages I only installed out of curiosity. 🙄😁

 

Bullseye is now oldstable and Buster is oldoldstable. From today's Bullseye update:

N: Repository 'https://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye InRelease' changed its 'Suite' value from 'st
able' to 'oldstable'
N: Repository 'https://deb.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security InRelease' changed its 'Sui
te' value from 'stable-security' to 'oldstable-security'
N: Repository 'https://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-updates InRelease' changed its 'Suite' value
from 'stable-updates' to 'oldstable-updates'



 

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3 hours ago, raymac46 said:

Bookworm is now the stable Debian 12 release. The non-free firmware is now in a separate repo so it's important to add non-free-firmware as a separate item in the sources.list file.

 

So wasn't this basically the thing you did previously? I know it wasn't a new repo but adding non-free to the repo line. Adding it to the installer as an option is neat though.

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No my sources.list did not have the non-free-firmware repo added because previously all the firmware came via non-free. I have main contrib non-free non-free-firmware on the line.

I have been running Bookworm for a couple of years as Debian Testing.

I'll roll with Bookworm for a week or so and then I'll likely switch over to Trixie and use the Testing distribution again.

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Well it's time to to join the rodeo and do some bull riding or bronco busting. I've had a week with Bookworm stable and I'm switching to Trixie testing. This is usually an insane move at this time in a Debian release cycle but I'm not really using the PC for anything serious so if I get 300 packages updating at a time that is OK.

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