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."

Comments

Mail to debian-announce; news on www.debian.org

[Josh Triplett]

Mail to debian-announce

News on www.debian.org

Congrats to the Debian project!

Congratulations!

[Anonymous Coward]

Direct download links at http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r0/. Bittorrent, Jigdo or direct ISO downloads (CDs or DVDs).

Announcement, images, and installation manual

[dondelelcaro]

• Offical Announcement
• Installation images
• Installation Manual

Re:Bill gates alert!

[Phil Hands]

All 14 CDs include EVERY package (...) and source.

Almost right, 14 CDs is just the binaries (on average, several architectures take 13, ia64 takes 15)

Source takes 15 more CDs

For a full set of CDs (that only an anal collector would actually want) for all 11 archs, and the source, you'll need 164 CDs :-)

As you say, the netinst image is the way to go, unless you want to send a copy to a friend who has no internet connection.