Debian Lays Out Freeze Plans For Woody

Posted by michael on Friday February 16, 2001 @01:26PM from the pun-all-you-want,-we'll-make-more dept.

impaler writes: "Looks like Woody is frozen. LWN has a message from the Woody release manager, saying it is frozen. So, I guess it is finally frozen. Hopeful in less than a year Debian 2.3/3.0 will be out. Yay. Well, really lots of yay. Nice gui installer(even though I'm fine with the text one) and automatic hardware detection(something I like...especially when installing Debian on a box you know almost nothing about its hardware i.e. at an installfest)." And it looks like the Debian Release Manager has absolutely, positively staked his life on releasing Woody no later than July 8, 2001, so we can set our clocks now and hold him to his sworn word.

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No, woody is *not* frozen by joey · 2001-02-16 11:16 · Score: 5

The number of innacuracies in this article is very high.

Woody is NOT frozen. We have a timeline, which calls for a freeze beginning in April. The timeline is plastered with "THOSE DATES ARE NOT REALISTIC!" warnings.

Woody may or may not include hardware autodetection, but the code's not there yet. The next-generation debian installer project (which I lead) WILL have hardware autodetection, but it will not be a supported installation method for woody.

Woody will NOT have a GUI installer. What fever dreams prompted impaler to write that, we will never know.
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