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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. Re:I have the way out! by kronsrepus · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    > 1. su&&yes|rm -R /
    ...
    > 4. Insert Windows XP CD
    ...
    > 6. USE YOUR COMPUTER WITH EASE

    Give a mechanic a car that you can't open the hood on, and he'll find it sooo much easier ;)

    I wish I could open up my OS.. oh hang on... I can!

  2. Re:way out necklace for ya! by Harumuka · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    What a waste of a perfectly good CD! I would prefer to precisely scratch the reflective media off using a microscope and write a script to read the bad sectors. Then you could store DeCSS or even the Linux kernel superimposed on an XP CD. Who says trash CDs are useless?

    --
    What do you think of MusicCity now?
  3. Re:I have the way out! by wickidpisa · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    4. Insert Windows XP CD
    5. Install effortlessly

    Ha, I wish. I'll admit, Windows XP is a great leap for MS, it's acutally a decent OS, but you go a little far saying that. I recently upgraded my parent's computer from 98SE to XP, and it hung at the step of determining system compatibility for over 6 hours. The machine was only about 3-4 years old, which I think is a reasonable age to expect a current OS on. That same weekend I installed Debian on an 8 year old box with no problems.