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Linux 2.6.32 will be quite outdated upon release, I hope they will make a squeeze 'n half like they did for Etch.

Also, I hope python 2.6 will be enough for the Squeeze lifetime, as python 2.7 is stable now. Python 2.5 on Lenny (while 2.6 was already released) was problematic in term of lacking features.

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There's always backports.org :-)

I'm surprised how many debian users don't know about backports. The packages there are quite stable and is useful for the one or two things you need updated versions of.

and http://www.dotdeb.org/ for php/mysql

and http://debian.dc-uoit.net/debian-multimedia/ for an ffmpeg that has modernish codecs

Which kernel was a bit tricky for squeeze (note that the below is based on old and perhaps out of date research):

First of course they wanted to start with a stable enough one; I remember them passing over one possibility (.31???) because it wasn't very good in their and many other people's opinion.

This will be the last version of Debian that supports a Xen DomU with a patched kernel vs. pv_ops; in theory pv_ops DomU will be sufficiently solid by the following release. Doing a solid merge of the code even with the SUSE foundation is non-trivial (Xen supplies it as patches to 2.6.18).

I pay attention to this because some of what I do is with or on Xen and Debian lenny was the best DomU solution for me when I started.

I think you meant forward-ported Dom0 patches. Lenny already supported DomU operation without modification.

Yes, yes, I spazzed 0 -> U. Thanks for the correction.

They're also shipping Perl from the three year old 5.10 branch, instead of the 4 month old 5.12.

That's why the nickname for stable is stale.

Which could be construed as a synonym for hardened.

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