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Debian Announces Sarge Will Include GNOME 2.8

Posted by timothy on from the catching-up-is-the-best-revenge dept.

El Cubano writes "A recent posting to the debian-devel-announce mailing list announces that Sarge will release with GNOME 2.8. From the announcement: 'After requests and a detailed proposal from the GNOME team, we accepted an upload of GNOME 2.8 into sid, and, via the usual mechanisms, into sarge. We should mention that the release team was running out of objections to GNOME 2.8 in unstable that the GNOME team hasn't satisfactorily addressed; this, and the fact that they have demonstrated good reaction times of late are the main reasons why we're approving it despite the timing.'"

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  1. Sarge Will Include GNOME 2.8 by gowen · · Score: 5, Funny

    And its scheduled for release at roughly the same time as Saddam Hussein

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    1. Re:Sarge Will Include GNOME 2.8 by Smuttley · · Score: 1, Funny

      If I had mod points I use them to smack who ever marked this post as troll around the head :)

  2. Is Armagaedon upon us? by AlanS2002 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Debian incorporating newly released software into stable in less than two years, who would of though.

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  3. FYI by bionicyeti · · Score: 4, Funny

    Garden Gnome 1.0 is scheduled for release on my lawn this spring...

    1. Re:FYI by kaszeta · · Score: 5, Funny
      Garden Gnome 1.0 is scheduled for release on my lawn this spring...

      If it's a Debian Garden Gnome, you'll have to leave it in the back yard until it's weathered and outdated, and then move it to the front yard after it's demonstrated its stability for two years...

  4. Not suitable by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    How about KDE 3.3?

    Debian aims to be an international distribution, used by people of all races, genders and age groups throughout the world. Gnome fits in with this. Debian considered KDE 3.3 as well, but found that it wouldn't be acceptable on a global basis because they found that in Korea KDE 3.3 is only used by old people.

  5. Debian Announces Sarge Will Include GNOME 2.8 by ModMeFlamebait · · Score: 1, Funny

    ... in 2008 :P

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  6. Re:KDE by ultrabot · · Score: 1, Funny

    RTFA, why don't you?

    Come on, this is slashdot after all. Articles are only read by Old People.

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  7. applicable Star Wars quote by for_usenet · · Score: 5, Funny

    Luke: What is it Obi-Wan ?

    OWK: I felt a deep disturbance in the force. It was as if Debian decided to be more current with their packages.

  8. I haven't been in the army... by Buchenskjoll · · Score: 4, Funny

    is Sarge Will someone I should know? I am familiar with General Failure, though.

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  9. Release date by kbewley · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yah! A Debian insider is reported to have said that the Sarge release will form part of a bundle with Duke Nukem Forever.

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  10. Now that's a first by __aahlyu4518 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Gnome 2.8 isn't older than 12 months and it is already included !! WOW

    Well... we'll still have to wait for Sarge to be released as STABLE. That could take another while... ;-)

  11. Re:I have been waiting for this by Bigman · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah and I can't even get it to install on my Commodore PET.

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  12. Re:buffer overruns by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...and let's not mention that saying that you're not mentioning something is, in fact, mentioning it.

  13. Re:I have been waiting for this by yermoungder · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, there you go - I didn't have a spell-checker tool available to spot that bug! :-)

  14. Re:You cannot prove the nonexistence of something by ssj_195 · · Score: 2, Funny
    It is mathematically impossible to prove the nonexistence of something. You can only prove the existence of something.
    I can prove that there are no integral solutions to x^n + y ^n = z ^ n for n > 2. Sadly, this post is too small to contain it...