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Debian Project Nominations Opened
robstah writes "The Debian project have announced the opening of nominations for this year's Debian Project Leader (DPL) elections. The first nomination, that of Matthew Garrett (of Dasher fame) has also been announced on Debian Planet."
"Developers" really means "members of the Project". The term refers to the reality that Debian is a technical project and doesn't have a lot of need for people who can't do actual software development.
As for why only Project members can be the Project Leader, that's pretty common in organisations of all sorts.
"How can you claim that you are anti-crack, while still writing a window manager?" — Metacity README
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (a.k.a. woody) was released on 19th of July, 2002.
Don't let that stop you trolling, though.
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Debian seems to get along just fine. The stable branch, by its definition, does not receive new versions of software once it is released. It only receives backported security patches.
Testing and unstable, on the other hand, are more current versions of software.
Debian's releases are always done when they're done. If you want sarge, install sarge -- I've been using it for many moons on production systems. The occasional breakage is still less than what some other distributions shove out the door in their production releases.
I seem to recall a breakage some time ago... think think think... it was a naming conflict between djbdns and the Courier MTA both wanting to install some support program or other. It was an easy enough fix. Other than that, I've had no trouble out of it in either server or workstation usage.
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