[yocto] Dropping Debian 7 as supported?

[Fred Ollinger]

I run debian right now and it works great.

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Description:    Debian GNU/Linux 8.3 (jessie)
Release:        8.3
Codename:       jessie

I prefer debian over ubuntu:

1. Simpler footprint so it feels more customizable out of the box. (I know that any linux distro is infinitely customizable, but I like a simple install out of the box. I feel like ubuntu was ramming more and more things down my throat).

2. I strongly believe different platforms, although are more work, also expose more bugs.

3. I started on debian and it's what I'm used to.

4. It makes me feel better.

5. In the past, working on a different distro forced me to be more aware of the details of the build process which ultimately makes me a more valuable member of the team. Having the attitude that things will just work for us, in my opinion, is a bad one for a developer. I'd rather understand things.

(#4 is my primary reason).

I'll be happy to help out with debian support if you need it.

So far, I have zero problems, and it would be nice to not see a scary message telling me to change distros if my distro actually works great.

Frederick
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From: yocto-bounces at yoctoproject.org <yocto-bounces at yoctoproject.org> on behalf of Nick Leverton <nick at leverton.org>
Sent: Friday, February 12, 2016 5:43 AM
To: yocto at yoctoproject.org
Subject: Re: [yocto] Dropping Debian 7 as supported?

On Thursday 11 Feb 2016 14:32:50 Burton, Ross wrote:
> On 11 February 2016 at 14:21, Nick Leverton <nick at leverton.org> wrote:
> > Possibly a little early - Debian 7 will be going onto LTS security support
> > for
> > two years, starting some time this month.  Quoting from
> > https://wiki.debian.org/LTS
>
> Ah yes, I'd forgotten about the LTS project and was looking at the security
> team.
>
> This does make it less clear, but it's still an old release and we can't
> support/test on everything.

I appreciate that, and I suspect the LTS efforts are of most interest to those
running production servers.  I would think anyone developing on Debian is
likely to be running stable at least.  Although I've worked at many
development companies running elderly LTS versions of Ubuntu, Fedora/Centos,
etc, I admit I've yet to meet one that ran Debian at all.

Nevertheless if I can be of any help in supporting and testing on versions of
Debian, I'm happy to do so.

Nick
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