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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. I'm curious. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    I'm curious.

    For the people paying money to read an ad-free slashdot: do you feel that an entire day's outage is acceptable and worth paying for?

    Does Slashdot's failure to be honest and inform us of the outage make you feel better or worse about the situation?

  2. 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!

  3. 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?
  4. What does Debby look like? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Ok, we know that Debian was named after some girl named Debby. Her boyfriend was named Ian and they combined their names to call the distribution "Debian". Ok so far. But riddle me this:
    • Where is Debby now?
    • Are Debby and Ian still together?
    • What does Debby look like (jpg, if possible).
    • Does Debby do Linux or is she really a Windows gal?
    • Where was Debby from originally (town, high school, etc)?
    I'd sort of like to start a Debby fan club for this unsung heroine of Free Software.

    Hey Debby, wherever you are -- we love ya, baby!

  5. 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.

  6. Re:Hehe... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Typos are the language of the sole. Whoa, what's that typo say about me?

    Foot fetish?