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Debian 3.1 (Sarge) Released

Posted by timothy on from the at-last-not-at-least dept.

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."

5 of 411 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Excellent news! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The only thing frustrated me -- the number of Release-Critical [debian.org] bugs is not zero! Why is it so? Could anybody give the answer?

    Because people like you spend more time posting on Slashdot than actually contributing and fixing bugs.

  2. Red tape vs common sense. Same as Netscape... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I'm glad Sarge is released but the release process needs better quality control. They're making the same mistakes as Netscape did recently.

    For example, look at:

    http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=p ound

    There was a security problem in 1.8.2 (buffer overflow) that was fixed by the upstream developer and reported 40 days ago.

    Did a security patch make it into Sarge? No. Did versions 1.8.3, 1.8.4, 1.8.5 or 1.9 make it into Sarge? No.

    And yes, pound is a server-oriented program where security is critical. It is even used by Slashdot.

    Anyone on the Debian team making fun of Netscape for the recent Firefox 1.04 fiasco is a complete hypocrite.

  3. kerl 2.4.27, XFree86 4.3... by smartsaga · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    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
  4. Re:apt-get update broke by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    try it yourself and found out n00b

  5. Re:Congrats! by abigor · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    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.