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Debian Etch to be Released in December

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the regular-releases-makes-for-happy-users dept.

lord_rob the only on writes "According to a ZDNet article, the next release of Debian should be available in December 2006. From the article : 'The date represents a dramatic improvement in the regularity of Debian's development cycle. Etch will be shipped only 18 months after the previous release, version 3.1.'

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  1. I'll believe it by XanC · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...when I see it.

  2. I knew this was coming... by sydneyfong · · Score: 2, Funny

    when I read this post....

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  3. I know the name of it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's after 3.1 so it has to be Debian 95 !

    1. Re:I know the name of it by rduke15 · · Score: 2, Funny

      It's after 3.1 so it has to be Debian 95 !

      No, it will be Debian 3.11 for Workgroups.

      Debian 95 will come later...

  4. Damnit! by Professor_UNIX · · Score: 3, Funny
    What the hell is with releasing a new version so quickly? I just installed Sarge on my new web host and was hoping to get at least 2-3 years out of it as stable before I had to upgrade. Shit.

    /no, I'm not kidding.

  5. Wait a second by ndogg · · Score: 2, Funny

    What? Debian Etch is going to be released already? Damn. Not too long ago, I was playing with Woody (hey, stop giggling), and more recently, with Sarge (I said, stop giggling, frickin' school girls).

    Debian goes way to fast for me! Argh! I can't keep up!

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  6. Debian Etch by wild_pointer · · Score: 1, Funny

    So is it Debian 3.11 for Workgroups or did they make the full leap to Debian 95?

    There was a comment on the article with Vista falling behind few days ago where someone said even Etch would be release before Vista... guess he was right! :)

  7. Re:Let me be the first to say... by e5z8652 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hmm. Instead of rethinking policy for the whole Debian project, since as you point out they do have a large number of perople who actually like a slower release cycle, Debian could come up with a sub-distribution.

    This sub-distribution could be essentially Debian but with an emphasis on the latest and greatest desktop environment, newest kernel, etc. But all of the tools would remain the same (apt-get, etc.) and packages should be interchangeable. (Barring kernel or library dependencies of course - attempting to install the latest udev package on a 2.6.8 Sarge box might have understandable problems.)

    You could call this sub-distribution something friendly and warm, like a word that means something like "humanity to others" in a non-English language, which will appeal to a large number of English speakers as having a name that is easily remembered and catchy but won't be confused with your girlfriend or headgear.

    Then, to avoid the overhead of trying to run a whole other sub-distribution in addition to oldstable, stable, testing, unstable and experimental - you could spin off the sub-distribution and give it a life of it's own, where it can draw on the huge Debian base, but have the independence it needs to track the latest and greatest.

    Excellent!

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