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Re: Beginning of the End for Wheezy [sigh!]

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On Sun, 17 Apr 2016, Paul Trevethan wrote:

> On Sat, 16 Apr 2016 15:27:17 -0700
> Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Much to my regret (and others, too, I'm sure), yesterday, on 15
> > April 2016, the beginning of the end began for Wheezy. Google, as
> > announced months ago, finally ceased support for its browser on
> > Wheezy.  I double checked just to be sure, and in the course of
> > that check also discovered "official" Debian support for Wheezy
> > will cease in a little over a week on 26 April 2016 -- just 3 years
> > after its release.  However, it will automatically enter LTS until
> > 2018 at which time all support ceases and EOL "officially" occurs. 
> > 
> > Well, at least I have time to look for an alternative. Maybe, Devuan
> > will be viable by then, but I doubt it.  Or Debian will offer a
> > choice of inits as a standard option during installs on future
> > releases, but I very much doubt it.
> > 
> > B
> > 
> 
> If you want a rock solid Debian based system with no systemd - check
> out Antix distribution.

I've heard good things about AntiX.   It's already on my list   I like
to build my system from a terminal install up using only a window
manager to keep things light. No fancy desktop environment needed for
me.

Thanks for the recommendation. 

B  

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Beginning of the End for Wheezy [sigh!] Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2016-04-17 00:30 +0200
  Re: Beginning of the End for Wheezy [sigh!] Paul Trevethan <plist@internode.net> - 2016-04-17 02:00 +0200
    Re: Beginning of the End for Wheezy [sigh!] Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2016-04-17 03:00 +0200
      Re: Beginning of the End for Wheezy [sigh!] Michael Milliman <michael.e.milliman@gmail.com> - 2016-04-17 08:20 +0200
        Re: Beginning of the End for Wheezy [sigh!] Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-04-17 13:50 +0200
          Re: Beginning of the End for Wheezy [sigh!] (caution: thread deviation) Eike Lantzsch <zp6cge@gmx.net> - 2016-04-17 14:10 +0200
            Re: Beginning of the End for Wheezy [sigh!] (caution: thread  deviation) Michael Milliman <michael.e.milliman@gmail.com> - 2016-04-17 15:30 +0200
            Re: Beginning of the End for Wheezy [sigh!] (caution: thread deviation) "John L. Ries" <jries@salford-systems.com> - 2016-04-18 19:10 +0200
          Re: Beginning of the End for Wheezy [sigh!] Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI <renaud@olgiati-in-paraguay.org> - 2016-04-17 14:50 +0200
            Re: Beginning of the End for Wheezy [sigh!] Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2016-04-17 15:50 +0200
            Re: Beginning of the End for Wheezy [sigh!] Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com> - 2016-04-18 09:50 +0200
            Re: Beginning of the End for Wheezy [sigh!] Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2016-04-20 16:30 +0200
        Re: Beginning of the End for Wheezy [sigh!] Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2016-04-18 02:10 +0200
          Re: Beginning of the End for Wheezy [sigh!] Michael Milliman <michael.e.milliman@gmail.com> - 2016-04-18 06:50 +0200
            Re: Beginning of the End for Wheezy [sigh!] Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2016-04-18 21:10 +0200
    Re: Beginning of the End for Wheezy [sigh!] Bob Holtzman <holtzm@cox.net> - 2016-04-17 23:50 +0200
      Re: Beginning of the End for Wheezy [sigh!] Paul Trevethan <greywolf@internode.net> - 2016-04-18 06:50 +0200
        Re: Beginning of the End for Wheezy [sigh!] Bob Holtzman <holtzm@cox.net> - 2016-04-18 18:40 +0200
          Re: Beginning of the End for Wheezy [sigh!] Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2016-04-19 02:30 +0200
            Re: Beginning of the End for Wheezy [sigh!] Bob Holtzman <holtzm@cox.net> - 2016-04-19 20:30 +0200
  Re: Beginning of the End for Wheezy [sigh!] Jimmy Johnson <420.christian.single@gmail.com> - 2016-04-19 22:10 +0200
    Re: Beginning of the End for Wheezy [sigh!] Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2016-04-19 23:50 +0200
      Re: Beginning of the End for Wheezy [sigh!] Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2016-04-20 17:10 +0200
    Re: Beginning of the End for Wheezy [sigh!] Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2016-04-20 17:10 +0200

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