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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."
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GNAA Congratulates the Debian Project on the Release of Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 "Sarge"
BATON ROUGE, LA - June 6, 2005 - The Gay Nigger Association of America extended today its congratulations to the Debian Project regarding its 8th consecutive release of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution. The latest incarnation of Debian, codenamed "Sarge", had been eagerly anticipated for approximately 6,000 years by both unwashed GNU/Hippies and fizzlebearded Open Source aficionados alike. So far the reception of "Sarge" has ranged from indifferent to uninterested, but the release has managed to draw the attention of many fundamentalist Christians, who have long seen the release of a new version of Debian as one of the major signs of the apocalypse.
"Sarge" is notable for greatly expanding upon the Debian policy of creating distributions that are obsolete before they are even released - a practice which, while not particularly desirable, has been enthusiastically received by nostalgic collectors of outdated open source software, as well as the National Association for Marketing Buggy Linux Applications, or NAMBLA. Debian project leader Branden Robinson defended the policy, however, in an impromptu GNAA interview which was conducted at his home. When asked to comment on Debian's slow adoption of new software, he was quoted as saying, "Look, the fact is that the open source development model is so ineffective that just as many new bugs are probably created in each release as old ones are fixed, so it all evens out. Right? Um - please stop touching my leg. No I'm not homophobic, I just - hey, I said cut it out! No, stop! I'm saving myself for Bruce Perens! HELP!"
About Debian
The Debian project was started in 1993 by Ian Murdock, who was unsatisfied with the level of political bickering and useless hand-wringing found in other projects at the time. The Debian Project has grown steadily over the years and currently consists of over 1,000 developers and maintainers, yet contains more bugs and is more out of date than the older Slackware distribution, which is produced by a single maintainer with a chronic bacterial infection. Debian's use has been on the decline due to users being fed up with its sluggish release process and political drama, but it has nevertheless received the accolade of those Linux users who have not yet discovered the existence of superior and more modern distributions such as Ubuntu, Fedora Core, and Windows Server 2003.
About GNAA:
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Why not? It's quick and easy - only 3 simple steps!
14 CDs is the cost of OSS now huh? Just wait "OSS isn't free, you need 25 billion CDs just to install a popular OS!"
I like muppets.
Just as soo as I finish compiling the last versi... Ooops, wait, wrong distro.
"What do you think?" "I think 'What, do you think?!'"
GNAA Congratulates the Debian Project on the Release of Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 "Sarge"
BATON ROUGE, LA - June 6, 2005 - The Gay Nigger Association of America extended today its congratulations to the Debian Project regarding its 8th consecutive release of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution. The latest incarnation of Debian, codenamed "Sarge", had been eagerly snticipated for approximately 6,000 years by both unwashed GNU/Hippies and fizzlebearded Open
Source aficionados alike. So far the reception of "Sarge" has ranged from
indifferent to uninterested, but the release has managed to draw the attention
of many fundamentalist Christians, who have long seen the release of a new
version of Debian as one of the major signs of the apocalypse.
"Sarge" is notable for greatly expanding upon the Debian policy of creating
distributions that are obsolete before they are even released - a practice
which, while not particularly desirable, has been enthusiastically received by
nostalgic collectors of outdated open source software, as well as the National
Association for Marketing Buggy Linux Applications, or NAMBLA. Debian project
leader Branden Robinson defended the policy, however, in an impromptu GNAA
interview which was conducted at his home. When asked to comment on Debian's
slow adoption of new software, he was quoted as saying, "Look, the fact is that
the open source development model is so ineffective that just as many new bugs
are probably created in each release as old ones are fixed, so it all evens
out. Right? Um - please stop touching my leg. No I'm not homophobic, I just
- hey, I said cut it out! No, stop! I'm saving myself for Bruce Perens!
HELP!"
About Debian
The Debian project was started in 1993 by Ian Murdock, who was unsatisfied
with the level of political bickering and useless hand-wringing found in other
projects at the time. The Debian Project has grown steadily over the years and
currently consists of over 1,000 developers and maintainers, yet contains more
bugs and is more out of date than the older Slackware distribution, which is
produced by a single maintainer with a chronic bacterial infection. Debian's
use has been on the decline due to users being fed up with its sluggish release
process and political drama, but it has nevertheless received the accolade of
those Linux users who have not yet discovered the existence of superior and
more modern distributions such as Ubuntu, Fedora Core, and Windows Server 2003.
About GNAA:
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the first
organization which gathers GAY NIGGERS from all over America and abroad for one
common goal - being GAY NIGGERS.
Are you GAY ?
Are you a NIGGER ?
Are you a GAY NIGGER ?
If you answered "Yes" to all of the above questions, then GNAA (GAY NIGGER
ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) might be exactly what you've been looking for!
Join GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) today, and enjoy
all the benefits of being a full-time GNAA member.
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the fastest-growing
GAY NIGGER community with THOUSANDS of members all over United States of
America and the World! You, too, can be a part of GNAA if you join
today!
Why not? It's quick and easy - only 3 simple steps!
Oh yes! Everybody. Pheeerr the power of Debian as it releases it latest version made up of software that's two years out of date... that's no more "stable" than anything in, for example, Fedora... and is, in fact, missing years of improvements and bugfixes.
Was it worth the wait? Hell no. Forget Debian and its idiotic release politics. Get a more realistic distro.
Using Debian feels to me like traveling back in time. It is the only distribution that is already old and outdated before it is released.
I guess Debian is a special distribution for masochists...
Oh well, what the hell...
Does anyone know what Mr. Debian is going to do with all the money generated by CD sales? Is he going to contribute some of the profits to open source projects that made this Linux distribution so popular?
As the author of a CONSIDERABLE number of best-selling games, I would like to know if you can play games on linux yet.
Steven Wooston, Lead Programmer, J-J-J-Julius Games
Author of a CONSIDERABLE number of best-selling games
everyone that was fed up waiting went to ubuntu anyway...