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Debian Woody Nearing Release

Posted by timothy on from the long-time-comin' dept.

willybur submits word of this Debian Planet story on the upcoming release of its next stable version. The article says: "According to Anthony Towns (our beloved Release Manager), woody is nearing release. All but three RC base bugs are fixed now, and the bugsquashing party is working through the RC bugs in standard. It's not all good news though. The bad news is that this means we're probably releasing soon, and that of the hundreds of less important packages with RC bugs (eg, bugzilla, craft, crossfire-{client,server}, epic4, fvwm95, gmc, gnome-admin, intuitively, kdepim, moon-lander, tkdesk, wine, and xosview) will be getting randomly ripped out of testing ... Check the stuff that's important to you and get it fixed before it's too late." Says willybur: "See the announcement on debian-devel-announce."

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  1. A port of linux! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Think linux is just for gay geeks? Then check this out

  2. Kernel version? by frozenwoody · · Score: 2, Funny

    All I can say is this: I *seriously* hope we're using at least the 2.0 kernel.

  3. Why is it... by Nameles · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...that every time I download and burn a Linux distro, the next version appears within 8 hours - 3 days?

    1. Re:Why is it... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Simple: it's to keep the CD-R makers in business.

      -MBCook

  4. Re:Fighting the /. effect. Do not mod up. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Debian has PHP3? Welcome to the 90's, Debian!

  5. big news by seanw · · Score: 1, Funny


    Debian is being released soon!

    in other news, hell has recently frozen over.

  6. Obligatory Sex Joke... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Now that "Woody" is the base for my Debian installation, I can start working on my new, security focused distro "Stiffy," followed up by next Uber-Gaming project, "Hard On."

    Makes me wonder were Potato fits into it all....

  7. Re:About time too by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    You should've installed Woody then.

    I install Woody regularly, UP YOUR ASS!

  8. Re:Fighting the /. effect. Do not mod up. by Daniel · · Score: 3, Funny

    Thanks for your insightful [0] comments on our release process. Could you give me a URL for the webpage of your Linux distribution? Given your cutting insight into the issues of building one, I assume you have one with some useful features we could learn from. I also presume it's quite stable, secure, and up-to-date, and already runs on a half dozen hardware architectures and at least two kernels.

    Thanks,
    Daniel

    [0] or is that inciteful?

    --
    Hurry up and jump on the individualist bandwagon!