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dmontaine

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What is the plan for the next release

It's been rather quiet here,  Just wondering how the progress is going preparing for the next release?

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Re: What is the plan for the next release

It's moving right along.
No critical issues.

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Re: What is the plan for the next release

It's a matter of time. @johnraff is the only one who has the skill-set to build a full BL-boron-alpha.iso at the moment, and until we get that we're kind of stuck. Need to see the product before we can tweak it.

That said, I have been running trixie for the last six months and I think, given the state of Linux at the moment and all that entails, it's going to be Debian's best release yet. A great combination of stability, new packages, and dpkg/apt, my favorite package manager(s).

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johnraff

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Re: What is the plan for the next release

@johnraff is the only one who has the skill-set to build a full BL-boron-alpha.iso at the moment, and until we get that we're kind of stuck.

OK got the message!

Need to tweak and release bunsen-configs first, to incorporate all the new theming settings, icon theme dependencies etc, but I think that's the main thing in the way of trying a Trixie alpha iso build.

Of course, that's assuming live-build itself hasn't changed in any way that requires a lot of config changes. It's had a lot of work since Bookworm, so not out of the question. Fingers crossed...

EDIT: Excuse for slow work is that my eyes are in the recovery phase after cateract surgery, and I have to keep my time looking at the computer down or I get headaches. Seems to be improving though.

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Re: What is the plan for the next release

I've installed a Trixie test system and it's been pretty solid so far at this stage so hopefully no showstoppers for Carbon :-)

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johnraff

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Re: What is the plan for the next release

@johnraff is the only one who has the skill-set to build a full BL-boron-alpha.iso at the moment, and until we get that we're kind of stuck.

OK got the message!

@hhh on reflection that might have looked a bit sharp. It was meant to be said with the sort of tongue-in-cheek rattiness that isn't easy to convey on an internet forum.

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Gaucho

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Re: What is the plan for the next release

All good, and take my remark as a compliment!

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Re: What is the plan for the next release

johnraff and hhh are the two guys that know being tongue-in-cheek(y) rattiness in a public social intercourse between each other is a sign of respect directed towards the other.

Did I say that right?

Yes we are on schedule.

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Gaucho

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Re: What is the plan for the next release

Well, @marens thinks I'm female, so "two guys" is questionable. *huge emoji goes here*

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marens

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Re: What is the plan for the next release

^ What?
You're not a woman? 

Now I'm disappointed!

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Re: What is the plan for the next release

Well, @marens thinks I'm female, so "two guys" is questionable. *huge emoji goes here*

OH I WANNA SAY MORE!

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dmontaine

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Re: What is the plan for the next release

Prior to an Alpha ISO release, are there step-by-step instructions for installing the next version for testing using the Trixie net installer?

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Re: What is the plan for the next release

Prior to an Alpha ISO release, are there step-by-step instructions for installing the next version for testing using the Trixie net installer?

Use this image (amd64)...

https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/trix … etinst.iso

Source: https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/

Use these instructions (jump to 3B after 1 and 2, use the second suggestion in 4B, then continue through the steps)...

https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?id=8961

Make sure to change "bookworm" to "trixie" and "boron" to "carbon" in your sources.

Where's that confounded 4A?

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dmontaine

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Re: What is the plan for the next release

Thank you - here are updated trixie/carbon net install instructiions.
Note: Updated instructions on 7/23/2025 to download the rc2 iso of Trixie.

To set up a BunsenLabs Base system, follow these steps:

1) Download current Debian trixie "netinstall" iso

https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/trix … etinst.iso

2) Follow the usual netinstall process, remembering:

*) Don't set a password for 'root' in the user setup phase
*) In the package selection phase, choose only "standard system utilities"

3) Login to the new command-line system & Issue the following commands

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
wget https://ddl.bunsenlabs.org/ddl/bunsen-release.asc
sudo cp bunsen-release.asc /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d

4) Edit the apt sources

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/bunsen.list

type in this line:

deb https://pkg.bunsenlabs.org/debian carbon main

Edit /etc/apt/sources.list, add 'contrib' and  'non-free' and to all the existing debian lines:

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

The lines should be something like:

deb https://deb.debian.org/debian trixie main non-free-firmware  contrib non-free

(If you're not planning to build any packages from source, you can also comment out the lines which begin with 'deb-src'.)

Update again:

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

5) Now install the BunsenLabs base packages.

sudo apt install --no-install-recommends bunsen-meta-base (or bunsen-meta-lite or bunsen-meta-all)

6) Reboot to see the graphical interface:

sudo systemctl reboot

Last edited by dmontaine (2025-07-23 06:38:54)

DeepDayze

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Re: What is the plan for the next release

Looks like the trixie release date is now August 9th:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-a … 00003.html

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johnraff

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Re: What is the plan for the next release

@dmontaine thank you!

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