The project is going to shut down later this year

May 23, 2017 21:03 GMT  ·  By

You know we hate to give you guys bad news, but it looks like the Parsix GNU/Linux project is closing its doors in about six months after the release of the Debian GNU/Linux 9 "Stretch" operating system.

We believe that we were among the very few GNU/Linux news websites to cover regular news about new stable or development Parsix GNU/Linux releases, and the only one to inform Parsix GNU/Linux users when a new set of security patches and kernels were published so that they could quickly update their installations.

However, as all good things must come to an end, the Parsix GNU/Linux development team has published a brief announcement on the distro's homepage to inform users that the project is going to shut down later this year, specifically about six months after the release of Debian GNU/Linux 9 "Stretch."

"We take this moment to thank all users and community members who supported this project throughout the years by using Parsix, making donations or spending their time to improve it. A more accurate time line will be announced once we have more information in regards to the official release date of Debian Stretch," said the devs.

All existing Parsix GNU/Linux users will be moved to Debian 9

Parsix GNU/Linux always used the software repositories of the current stable Debian GNU/Linux release, providing users with security updates even after a certain Parsix GNU/Linux release reached end of life and was no longer supported. At the moment, the current stable release is Parsix GNU/Linux 8.15r1 "Nev."

The team promises that they will provide support for Parsix GNU/Linux 8.15 "Nev" until its end of life, and after that, they'll do anything in their power to safely move all existing users to the Debian GNU/Linux 9 "Stretch" operating system, whose release date is not yet known, but it shouldn't be long until it's ready to go.

With that in mind, we'd like to thank the Parsix GNU/Linux development team for all their hard work and wish them good luck with all of their future projects. You can still download the latest Parsix GNU/Linux release if you want to keep it for posterity's sake from the official website. So long Parsix, and thanks for all the fish!