<![CDATA[Dev1 Galaxy Forum / Debian LTS/Extended by Freexian and Devuan EOL - best practices]]> http://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=8098 Tue, 14 Jul 2026 05:13:33 +0000 FluxBB <![CDATA[Re: Debian LTS/Extended by Freexian and Devuan EOL - best practices]]> http://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=64749#p64749 I use virtualization and understand how to gain experience independently. I asked the question because I wanted to learn from the community's experience.

]]> Tue, 14 Jul 2026 05:13:33 +0000 http://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=64749#p64749 <![CDATA[Re: Debian LTS/Extended by Freexian and Devuan EOL - best practices]]> http://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=64748#p64748 Get an external drive clone the existing install to it. Then boot from the external add the required line to  the sources and give it a go using it. If it is successful for any length of time then you know it is safe to use if not continue on your merry way with the never touched internal drive on what it was always running.

]]> Tue, 14 Jul 2026 04:56:26 +0000 http://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=64748#p64748 <![CDATA[Re: Debian LTS/Extended by Freexian and Devuan EOL - best practices]]> http://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=64730#p64730 I haven't used Freexian, but perhaps @brocashelm can help you as he's mentioned he uses it for one of his installs, I think an old beowulf system in fact.

]]> Mon, 13 Jul 2026 13:11:08 +0000 http://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=64730#p64730 <![CDATA[Re: Debian LTS/Extended by Freexian and Devuan EOL - best practices]]> http://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=64726#p64726 kernel 5.10 is also very interesting, does anybody tried kernel from Freexian?

]]> Mon, 13 Jul 2026 10:31:14 +0000 http://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=64726#p64726 <![CDATA[Debian LTS/Extended by Freexian and Devuan EOL - best practices]]> http://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=64725#p64725 I have a service that depends on Tomсat 9 and Java 8. I'm currently using Devuan 4 and Java from Temurin.

Debian 11 support ends in September, and Devuan 4 support will end soon as well.

My service is fairly stable and won't be updated. It's not exactly a legacy service, more like a "mature enterprise solution" smile.

I'd like to connect the Freexian repository, but I'm worried about potential issues.

Are there any good practices for using Freexian? Perhaps a whitelist of packages (tzdata, dns-root-data, and other system packages), or a blacklist?

Basically, I'd like to receive updates for Java (which will come from Temurin), Apache 2 (hopefully via ELTS), and the system/OS in general. Apache Tomchat 9 obviously won't update automatically, and even if it does, it won't have the scripts for Sysvinit.

So, has anyone tried Devian + ELTS Freexian and what happened?

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