14 DAY TRIAL // As reported last month, the Parsix GNU/Linux 8.5 operating system was about to reach the end of its life on September 30, 2016, so today being October 2 means that you need to upgrade your system right away.
Dubbed Atticus, Parsix GNU/Linux 8.5 was announced approximately 8 months ago, on the 14th of February, and it was entirely based on the Debian GNU/Linux 8.5 "Jessie" operating system, which means that it shipped with the long-term supported Linux 4.1.17 kernel and the GNOME 3.18 desktop environment with GNOME Shell 3.18.3.
On September 30, 2016, the end-of-life (EOL) development status was reached, which means that Parsix GNU/Linux 8.5 "Atticus" will no longer receive security and software updates. However, the software repositories will remain open one more week, until October 10, 2016, for users to upgrade their systems.
Upgrade to Parsix GNU/Linux 8.10 "Erik" now
The latest stable and supported version of the Debian-based operating system is Parsix GNU/Linux 8.10 "Erik," to which you must upgrade your Parsix GNU/Linux 8.5 "Atticus" installation as soon as possible. After October 10, its repos will go offline to make room for the next major release, Parsix GNU/Linux 8.15 "Nev."
"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. If you are interested in keeping Atticus on your machines, please use Debian Jessie updates and security repositories."
As you can see, if you don't want to upgrade to Parsix GNU/Linux 8.10 "Erik," you can keep your Parsix GNU/Linux 8.5 "Atticus" installation up to date by switching to use the official Debian Jessie "updates" and "security" repositories, as the distribution is binary compatible with the Debian GNU/Linux 8 "Jessie." More details on the project's website.