Users are urged to upgrade to Parsix GNU/Linux 8.10 "Erik"

Sep 28, 2016 00:55 GMT  ·  By

The Parsix GNU/Linux developers announced that the end-of-life status is approaching fast for the Parsix GNU/Linux 8.5 "Atticus" operating system, urging users to upgrade to the latest release immediately.

Dubbed Atticus and based on the Debian GNU/Linux 8.5 "Jessie" operating system, Parsix GNU/Linux 8.5 was unveiled seven months ago, on February 14, 2016. Running the long-term supported Linux 4.1.17 kernel injected with TuxOnIce 3.3 and BFS patches, it was built around the GNOME 3.18 desktop environment with the GNOME Shell 3.18.3 user interface.

The end of life (EOL) will be officially reached on September 30, 2016, which means that users of the Parsix GNU/Linux 8.5 "Atticus" operating system will no longer receive security and software updates. Therefore, they are urged today to upgrade to the latest, most recent version of the Debian-based distribution, Parsix GNU/Linux 8.10 "Erik."

"Parsix GNU/Linux project is going to stop security and technical support for version 8.5 (Atticus) as of September 30, 2016," reveals the development team in the official announcement. "We encourage Atticus users to upgrade their systems to Parsix GNU/Linux 8.10."

Parsix GNU/Linux 8.5 repos go offline on October 10, 2016

It is important to mention here that the Parsix GNU/Linux 8.5 "Atticus" software repositories will go offline two weeks after the distro reaches end of life, on October 10, 2016, to allow users to upgrade their systems to Parsix GNU/Linux 8.10. After that, they will go offline to make room for the next major release, Parsix GNU/Linux 8.15 "Nev".

However, if you want to continue using your Parsix GNU/Linux 8.5 "Atticus" distro for various reasons, you should know that it can be updated using the upstream "updates" and "security" repositories for the Debian GNU/Linux 8 "Jessie" operating system, as it's binary compatible with it. More details on that can be found on the project's website.