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Debian 3.0 (Woody) May 1?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the best-gets-better dept.

dex@ruunat noted that this morning, in a message to the debian-devel-announce mailing list, Anthony Towns, Debian's Release Manager, wrote: "I'm becoming increasingly confident in woody's release readiness. So, to go out on a limb: Debian 3.0 (codenamed woody) will release on May 1st, 2002." Congrats to all the debheads putting this thing together. I have a blank CDR waiting ;)

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  1. Yes! by corebreech · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm confident in my woody as well, so much so I'm ready to release it too!

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    1. Re:Yes! by cheekymonkey_68 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Ah but what license is you're woody going to be released under?

      Can you recompile you're woody after its been 'released' ?

      Still confident about releasing you're woody ?

      Hadn't you really better wait till you're girlfriend gets home ?

      After all you're woody might be up against 'stiff' opposition...

    2. Re: Yes! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny


      BSD of course. It's the one truly free licence. Just make sure you don't get a viral licence! ;)

  2. Re:I have the way out! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Does this "Windows XP" you speak of work on my Pentium 66mhz machine? Because I use that as my IP Masquerading firewall and FTP/SSH server and I think it needs an upgrade. It has 250mb of HDD space and 32mb of RAM, will Windows XP suffice? Does it do IP Masquerading properly?

    Oh and also, will it run on my two Apple machines? I might look into it.

  3. Re:Version numbering? by gorf · · Score: 3, Funny

    If the scheduler or virtual memory manager gets a major improvement, that would probably warrent a version 3.0, or so.

    Which is why they changed the VM in the middle of the 2.4 series :)

  4. Re:way out necklace for ya! by Glanz · · Score: 2, Funny

    LOL.... I like your spirit!!! Now the question is, what to do with Anonymous Coward's PC after he trashes it by installing XP on it. I was thinking in the line of a good hammer or possibly a cup of graphite dust sucked in by the input fan.

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  5. Re:vs Mandrake ? by The+Pim · · Score: 3, Funny
    It's like comparing apples and hamburgers. I have both on the drive.

    That can't be good for the drive.

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  6. Re:Didn't they promise to fix the release cycle? by Phil+Hands · · Score: 2, Funny

    That'll be fixed in the next release of release-manager.deb

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