A win for rude, pushy and obnoxious people who shouted loudest and longest and ignored everyone else...

Well that's what I see from the systemd detractors, not its proponents. They're still shouting loudly, in the comments on every article even tangentially related to it. Of course they are being ignored by systemd proponents and most neutral parties because they mostly repeat the same myths and slurs.

Sorry about that. Once you've recovered, consider running 'reportbug release-notes' to request an additional note about this gotcha. (I assume that there is already a bug report against grub).

A true free and open process would be to include a choice at installation/upgrade time between the choices. If I do have a choice on the web server, on the DNS server, on the mail server, even on the kernel, on the shell that I deliver for my users [...]

You can't choose any of those through the installation GUI. All of them require a custom pre-seeded install or post-install action.

If you upgrade an x86 system, both systemd and sysvinit will be installed and you can select sysvinit from the GRUB menu.

Debian had a GR to decide this issue, so please don't spread conspiracy theories about "a small handful of people". Good luck with FreeBSD.

Debian 8 has libjpeg-turbo, replacing libjpeg8 and matching most other distributions.

Please read the release notes, there are various things that may need manual attention before you upgrade.

Because it wasn't tested well enough? For example, in the case of the system call entry path, Andy Lutomirski found a bunch of bugs over the past few months - including CVE-2014-4508, CVE-2014-9090 and CVE-2015-2830. His changes for 4.1 include the addition of regression tests as well as cleaning up that code.

Yet all the browsers consider unencrypted connections more secure than connections encrypted with a self signed certificate.

No. They consider that entering or following a link to an 'https:' URL means that you expect a secure connection. In this context, a self-signed certificate that has not been whitelisted is an error.

MPEG set up the MPEG-LA that serves as a patent pool

No, they did not. There are a lot of the same players there, of course, but they have no formal relationship.

This is good news; I'm glad to see at least one misogynist leaving Wikipedia.

Sadly, it still seems to be run by a bunch of young white guys fighting for the importance of hosting porn and claiming the consensus of their privileged group is "neutral". ArbCom has censured admins for fighting back against lies spread by GamerGate, with a ban that may apparently prevent them fixing any abusive edits to articles about women.

99% of the resumes that HR sent me

Maybe part of the problem is letting HR filter them first. If they don't know how to spot bullshit then they may effectively favour the liars.

As described, It is full duplex - both sides transmit simultaneously and have to cancel their own signal and its echoes from the combined received signal. Twisted-pair Ethernet already works this way, but in the radio medium the echoes must be even more challenging to model and cancel.

USB host controllers generally support DMA, but the drivers on the host do all the buffer management so the device cannot choose which addresses to read and write. Of course, it can take advantage of driver bugs such as the HID descriptor parsing bugs that were fixed in Linux a few years ago.

This is why I claim it's spyware. Sure, you can turn most of those things off, but the intent of turning them on by default is to capture that information from most users.

you know what I don't use every day? Debian, Do you know why? People like you. I've been using Linux for 20 years and it's people like you that get in the way of progress.

I'm not getting in the way of anything. The kernel is team-maintained and I've explained how this change can be made without my help.

Linux 3.19 is already packaged in experimental and I expect to end up maintaining a linux package in jessie-backports, so that will be another option for people who really want to use Chrome/Chromium.