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

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

  2. 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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  3. 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 ...

  4. 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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  5. Yabba Dabba Do! by m0nkyman · · Score: 5, Funny

    finally my woody is stable!

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