.. title: Debian 9
.. slug: debian-9
.. date: 2017-06-19 18:53:12 UTC
.. tags: debian, hardware
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`Stretch is stable. <https://www.debian.org/News/2017/20170617>`_ Testing is now called `Buster <https://wiki.debian.org/DebianBuster>`_.

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	sed -i 's/stretch/buster/g' /etc/apt/sources.list

I could equally well just use 'testing', but for some presumably deeply rooted psychological reasons, I like the codenames better.

For my veteran netbook `mini <http://pdes-net.org/cobra/posts/mini.html>`_, buster is now the 7th incarnation of Debian or Debian-derivatives in its 9 years of operation: Etch, Lenny, Squeeze, Wheezy, Jessie, Stretch, Buster. I'm sure it will also run Bullseye. 😉