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Debian 3.1 (Sarge) Released
Mister Furious writes "First, Apple switches to Intel, and now, equally shocking: Debian Sarge is released! Hell has officially frozen over! The scoop is from debian-administration.org: "The new Debian stable release, codenamed Sarge, has officially been released today. Several years of development since the last stable release, Woody, was released on the 9th of July, 2002 over a thousand developers around the world have helped make this release possible." Changes include Gnome 2.8, Firefox 1.0.4, Thunderbird 1.0.2, Apache 2.0.54 (1.3.33 is still available, too!), Postgresql 7.4.7, and more. The news hasn't hit the main Debian GNU/Linux site as of this article's posting. Congratulations to all of the Debian developers and contributors. Thanks for all your hard work and for a great distro!" Here's a link to the Debian Stable "Release" file.
Espectr0 points out an article about the release at Linux Compatible, writing "It is available on 14 (!) CD's or 2 DVD's. It includes XFree86 4.3, GNOME 2.8, KDE 3.3, Kernel 2.4.27, GCC 3.3.5, OpenOffice.org 1.1.3 and much others."
HA!!
ohh, yeah... congrats on the... er.. old stuff in your distro...????
Your outdated-distro are belong to us... get it?
HA!!!
P.S. HA!!!
Have a good one.
===== "Every head is a different world so don't invade mine you FREAK!" smartSAGA said
Great. No regular security updates, no guarantee the latest versions will be tracked, etc. Nice ad-hoc "solution". A better solution is to dump Debian and go with a distribution that stays somewhat up to date, tracks security updates, and still has package management and dependency resolution. Luckily, there are a number of such distributions around, many of them based on Debian.
And it's "voila". A viola is a musical instrument.