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Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 Released

Posted by michael on from the still-no-kde3-in-unstable dept.

emissary47 writes "The Debian Project is pleased to announce the release of Debian GNU/Linux version 3.0. Debian GNU/Linux is a free operating system, which now supports a total of eleven processor architectures, includes KDE and GNOME desktop environments, features cryptographic software, is compatible with the FHS v2.2 and supports software developed for the LSB. The Release Notes are available here."

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  1. Hell has frozen over! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    In other news... Hell has frozen over, pigs are flying, and the Chicago Cubs have won the World Series.

    1. Re:Hell has frozen over! by Skyshadow · · Score: 4, Funny
      ...and Mozilla 1.0 has been released.

      Oh, wait...

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    2. Re:Hell has frozen over! by Abstrakt · · Score: 3, Funny
      Hell has frozen over, pigs are flying

      Aptly said! I was beginning to think we'd never live to see this day.

      But seriously, a big thank you to all the diligent Debian people responsible for this!

    3. Re:Hell has frozen over! by Eccles · · Score: 4, Funny

      Dr. Raymond Stantz: We mean real wrath-of-God type stuff. Plagues, darkness--
      Winston Zeddemore: The dead rising from the grave!
      Dr. Egon Spengler: Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes--
      Dr. Peter Venkman: Riots in the streets, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!

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    4. Re:Hell has frozen over! by Chris+Pimlott · · Score: 4, Funny

      Oh goodie, Duke Nukem Forever must be coming out any moment now!

    5. Re:Hell has frozen over! by sigsegv · · Score: 2, Funny

      Hell has frozen over...the Chicago Cubs have won the World Series

      I guess Boston winning the World Series is even outside the scope of hell freezing over.

  2. Neat! by TriCCer · · Score: 3, Funny

    I can't wait 'till Debian releases a stable version of Debian GNU/HURD ;)=

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  3. This slashdotting is *terrible*! by Saint+Aardvark · · Score: 5, Funny
    C'mon, people -- I'm doing an apt-get dist-upgrade from work, and I'm getting 1000 kb/s download.

    Can't you kids do a proper slashdotting these days? It won't work unless we all pull together!

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  4. good lord by Doktor+Memory · · Score: 5, Funny
    In one day we have had:
    • Vorbis 1.0
    • Perl 5.8.0
    • ...and now Debian 3.0
    REPENT, REPENT, THE END IS NIGH!
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    1. Re:good lord by HoBuster · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'll bet Duke Nukem Fornever will be released tomorrow morning ...

    2. Re:good lord by Wise+Dragon · · Score: 2, Funny

      Heck, I'm betting on Commander Keen 7

  5. Re:Didn't they promise to speed up release cycle? by GlassHeart · · Score: 2, Funny
    Having said that, the future of Debian looks like a blue sky, with fluffy white clouds here and there.

    Damn, it's going to be Windows 95?!

  6. Re:Geeks, geeks, geeks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    They're trying to make their traffic less bursty
    by maximizing the number of people who are too
    busy to upgrade tonight.

  7. Re:Why don't you WAKE UP? by the_real_tigga · · Score: 2, Funny

    There are numerous reasons why KDE 3, Xfree86 4.2, Gnome 2, Openoffice, Mplayer, et al are not ready for Debian primetime.

    Yes: They are buggy and they crash.

    What other reasons are there?

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  8. Re:Didn't they promise to speed up release cycle? by henley · · Score: 5, Funny

    The future of Debian looks like the past.

    There will be, lo, much wailing and gnashing of teeth because Random Cool Package vX+1 isn't in the STABLE release. There will be much complaining by users (of which I am one!) when RCP vX+1 takes longer than 15 nanoseconds to hit the UNSTABLE release, regardless of how complicated it is to support on N (where N>=11) different architectures.

    In about 3 months time, there will be much complaining about how long the freeze for "Sid" is taking, and how out of date "Woody" has become (completely ignoring the fact that most people using Debian on servers are probably more than happy to continue to use "Potato" or earlier, just so long as they can apt-get from security.debian.org).

    In about 2.5 years, there will be another announcement on /. announcing Debian 4.0.

    And all through this, real honest-to-goodness users will be able to keep right up to the bleeding edge of free software just by adding a single line to their sources.list, and won't notice a thing.

    By someone who's apparently been running Debian 3.0 for some time now (a number of days, anyway) and didn't even notice. Thanks, apt-get dist-upgrade!

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  9. Re:Geeks, geeks, geeks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    > since my fiance is named debbie, i can get away with this :) ... in all honesty, she thinks it's really cool that i use a distribution so closely resembles her name

    I imagine Ian Murdoch's girlfriend felt the same way ;-).

  10. Re:Didn't they promise to speed up release cycle? by Cro+Magnon · · Score: 2, Funny
    In about 2.5 years, there will be another announcement on /. announcing Debian 4.0.
    Are you sure you haven't misplaced the decimal point on the years?
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  11. Yabba Dabba Do! by m0nkyman · · Score: 5, Funny

    finally my woody is stable!

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  12. Re:No forced downtime? by Mattsson · · Score: 3, Funny

    You'll have to take the system by surprise.
    Do something unexpected and then switch kernel while the system is still confused.

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  13. Darn by Cro+Magnon · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now I can't joke about Stale Potatos & Frozen Woodys

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  14. Full Metal Woody! by niko9 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Drill Sarg: Whats your name scumbag?!?!? Private: Sir, private woody, sir! Drill Sarg: BULLSHIT! From now on your name is private STABLE!!! Do you like that name ?!?!?!?! Private: Sir YES Sir!!! Drill Sarg: Well there's one thing you won't like private stable, they don't serve gcc 2.96 and KDE3 on a daily basis in my mess hall!!!!! Private: Sir, yes, sir!!!!

  15. Re:damn damn damn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I'm halfway through a 56k download of woody. damn it. damn it.

    So it takes you a long time to get a Woody? I would suggest reading some pr0n magazines...that should speed things up.

  16. Re:Unconvinced of benefits of gentoo's approach by cybrthng · · Score: 3, Funny

    Gentoo enforces a knowledge of your system your building.

    Sure a "desktop" may not have much performance increase since alot is already optimized, but imagine building and rolling your own Gentoo servers.

    1. You know everything that is on them
    2. You know how to build from scratch
    3. *EVERYTHING* is optimized for your specific server, memory configuration and CPU's.

    Heck, even in high end deskstop usage, the "ports" system Gentoo uses is superb.

    Yeah, kde/x/gnome take a few hours, but come on, the beauty of linux is the ability to optimize the darn thing for your system.