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Debian 2.2r4 (Potato) Released

Posted by Hemos on from the not-potatoe dept.

codazzo writes "Debian 2.2r4 is out. As their website states, "The fourth revision of Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (codename `potato') has been released. This point release, revision 2.2r4, mostly includes security updates, along with a few corrections of serious bugs in the stable distribution." " You can see the press release - or get it from the FTP list.

6 of 143 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Debian is dying by pecka · · Score: -1, Troll

    sure and you have piss instead of brain

  2. Stone age computing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yeah, this distro is real up-to-date. I love running software released three years ago!

  3. Re:Where's 3.0 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The big problem with the latest Potatoe, is they are actually using some comemrcial proprietary code in the latest version of apt-get, howver the developers are not talking about it in public, as you can well imagine why. This smacks of hypocrisy in the face of all the debian zealotry which has been bantered about in the free software community for years now. I can't reveal my sources but I can let you know that it's some of the same code which the Mozzila product ships with.

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    | |
    | Bababooey |
    | to you all |
    | _ _ _ _ __ _ |
    ' - -- . . - - - '
    | _|/
    | ." ".
    | /(o)-(o)\
    /_)| / |
    |_)| '- |
    \_)\ '.___.' / |\/|_
    | \ \_/ / _| '/
    |_\ \.___./ \ ) /
    \ \_/\__/\__ ==|
    \ \ /\ /\ `\ |
    \ \\// \ |
    `\ /\ / |
    ; | \____/
    | | |

  4. Re:Ouch by Glytch · · Score: 1, Troll

    I don't know about Linux, but I'll bet those NetBSD nuts are eager to try to make a Gamecube port. :)

  5. Debian releases by perrin · · Score: 0, Troll

    I've always been thinking that releases for Debian is kind of useless for those of us with permanent connection to the internet. I'm running Debian testing and I'm almost entirely happy with the stability of that.

    If Debian made yet another version that is a bit more conservative (say, a month testing instead of just days for "testing"), I'd recommend that to my friends instead of RedHat. There is no way I'll recommend them that outdated potato version.

    Releases deserve to die.

  6. Fuck Debian by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Debian's so bare-bones that you might as well stop fucking around and go to Slackware -- the only thing Debian has that Slack doesn't is apt.