Debian Etch to be Released in December

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.'

Comments

I know the name of it

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Damnit!

[Professor_UNIX]

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.

Re:Let me be the first to say...

[e5z8652]

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!