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Debian Sarge Coming Soon
daria42 writes "The long awaited 3.1 release of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution - codenamed Sarge - is due out next week on the 6th of June, according to the project's release team. Around 50 release-critical bugs remain to be fixed. One more update to Debian 3.0 will also be released prior to that date. And it's about time - the last formal release was back in July 2002. Debian 3.0 will probably be supported with security patches for another 12 months."
Who wants to enter our sweepstake for when Debian 3.2 will be released? Pick a date, and if you're the nearest, you'll win ... well, nothing.
I take July 4th, 2007.
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Does this mean thaat Duke Nukem Forever is coming out soon too? Or just that hell has frozen over?
...is that the original release date was around 33 B.C.
I can see herds of pigs flying over a completely frozen hell!
New Debian and new Fedora Core on same day? I assume this is an attempt to DDOS major backbones? :)
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...they should have named this release "Godot".
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Debian is a different kind of distribution compared to other popular distros. I wrote an essay on these differences here if anyone is interested. Bottom line in the essay; Debian continues to be more important as a community collection of tools and knowledge for building and distributing an operating system than as a standalone distro itself.
The Sarge release is great, but Debian's success is also in its franchisees. I remember a press conference where one of the marketing types predicted that there would eventually only be two major distributions. Robin 'roblimo' Miller piped up and burst his grand vision by asking 'Debian and who?' He got a laugh and made a point that continues to be made today. Debian is a fantastic laboratory to grow operating systems and the knowledge on how it happens is right there in its mailing lists, utilities and documentation.
Go Debian!
DaGoodBoy
My God! It's full of Voids!
I think the saying you are looking for is "knocks on wood".
"Touching wood" has a totally different meaning.
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I've seen a longer version (don't know where it came from) of the classic Calvin and Hobbes quote:
"It's not the verbing that weirds language so much, but rather, the renounification."
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The problem I have with Ubuntu is that it has a fairly limited set of packages. That and the half naked people.
Every time you post an article on Slashdot, I kill a server. Think of the servers!
My distro comes with fully naked people. They're compatible among themselves too.
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