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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."

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  1. in other news.. DUKE NUKEM FOREVER RELEASED! by perler · · Score: 5, Funny

    In a brillant marketing sting, Steve Jobs of Apple, the Debian Developement Team and 3DRealms united and tried to get the attention of the world today by confirming the long rumored news of the release of their respective flagship products, the Intel-microprocessor based "Macintosh Computer", the linux operating sytem "Debian 3.1" and the so called first person shooter game "Duke Nukem Forever" within hours and by doing so slashdotting the website "Slashdot.Org" - the only thing of the whole internet thought to be unslashdottable.

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  2. Mail to debian-announce; news on www.debian.org by Josh+Triplett · · Score: 5, Informative

    Mail to debian-announce

    News on www.debian.org

    Congrats to the Debian project!

  3. Congratulations! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

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

  4. Whew! by .killedkenny · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maintaining a 3-year-old Woody has been quite er...hard.

  5. Announcement, images, and installation manual by dondelelcaro · · Score: 5, Informative
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  6. Re:Bill gates alert! by Phil+Hands · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

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  7. If Hell has frozen over... by rdwald · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...why don't I have a girlfriend?

  8. You have to wait for the signals by theMinorcan · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now, when can we expect Etch?

    These are some of the things that happened between Debian releases:
    a) The Olympic games returned to Greece.
    b) The Pope died.
    c) A German Pope got elected in a conclave.
    d) Apple switched to Intel.
    e) Watergate's Deep Throat identity was revealed.
    f) The French rejected the European Constitution
    g) Boston won the World Series.
    So just sit, be patient and wait for the signals my son.