Server News - Future plans for Delorean
While most of you wouldn't know this, Delorean is currently running on Debian Testing, which is an unreleased version of the Debian Operating System. Basically, Testing is like a rolling beta release that is always ahead of the stable release. As such, Testing often receives many upgrades and requires more downtime and configuration than the stable release.
Well, Debian announced that the upcoming release, version 6.0 (nicknamed "Squeeze"), has been frozen. In other words, no more new features will be added, and once all important bugs are fixed, version 6 will be released.
Once Squeeze is official released, I will be switching Delorean to the stable release of Debian, in favor of the more volatile and updated testing release. Ultimately, this will mean better uptime and system stability. While the stability hasn't exactly been poor while on Testing, you'll notice less downtime and issues in the future.
Anyway, in order to settle into the stable release, once it's released, I'm going to need to do some system cleanup and ensure the system is ready for the transition. It might require some downtime as I switch over to Stable, but once we're settled in, the system should perform nicely.
I'm sure most of you won't care, but I figured I might as well discuss it here. Feel free to ask questions, too, if you wish.