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Debian May 1 Release Delayed

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the who's-surprised-by-that dept.

andrew writes "Anthony Towns, Debian's Release Manager, posted this message regarding the status of the expected May 1st release of Woody made reference to in this slashdot story. In short, he says: "So, it's April 30th (for most of the planet, anyway), which probably means folks are beginning to get mildly curious about whether woody'll actually be ready for release tomorrow. The answer is a definite 'kind-of'. Which is to say, 'no'.""

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  1. Its Microsoft by KingKire64 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It was Microsofts Army of Evil Monkeys... Damn them agian!!

    --
    "All I can tell the "lesser of two evils" folks is that if they keep voting for evil, they'll keep getting evil."-Lp.org
    1. Re:Its Microsoft by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      The moderation on /. is laughable, if your comment is even _slightly_ OT you can be sure you'll get modded as OT. IMO this has a detrimental effect on good old, _interesting_, threads, people don't want to post their opinions any more because they don't want to lose their karma. Get rid of the moderation (except on the comments that deserve to be modded down - crap flooders, racists, bigots, etc) band maybe /. can get back to like it was in the late 90's.

  2. No Delay for Woody! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I just poured hot grits down my pants and had natilie portman come over. It looks like I can release "Woody" any second now! I'll teach Debian about keeping to a schedule.

  3. Well, who cares about Debian? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    TEH MANDRAEK 0WNZ J00!

  4. Re: Worth waiting for... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    debian has the fuckingist retarded codenames

  5. Re:Huh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And in other news: Bear excreta found in woods; Pope a confirmed Catholic.

  6. Re:I have to say, I'm proud of them. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    It is official; Netcraft confirms: Debian is dying

    One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Debian community when IDC confirmed that Debian market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers> Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Debian has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Debian is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last [samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.

    You don't need to be a Kreskin [amdest.com] to predict Debian's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Debian faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Debian because Debian is dying. Things are looking very bad for Debian. As many of us are already aware, Debian continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. Debian is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers.

    Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

    Gah! NU leader Richard states that there are 7000 users of Gah! NU/Hurd. How many users of RedHat are there? Let's see. The number of Hurd versus RedHat posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 RedHat users. Mandrake posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of RedHat posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of Mandrake. A recent article put Debian at about 80 percent of the Linux market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Debian users. This is consistent with the number of Debian Usenet posts.

    Due to the troubles of Corel, abysmal sales and so on, Debian went out of business and was taken over by Slackware who sell another troubled OS. Now Slackware is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.

    All major surveys show that Debian has steadily declined in market share. Debian is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Debian is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. Debian continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Debian is dead.

    Fact: Debian is dying