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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. Re:AMD64? by colonwq · · Score: 3, Informative

    From the article:
    One of the major new features of Etch will be official support for the 64-bit x86 architecture which is becoming increasingly used in servers.

    :wq

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  2. Re:This is a bad idea by Phleg · · Score: 3, Informative

    Assuming a standard 18-month release cycle, they would support a distribution for exactly the three years offered by RedHat. Each previous version of "stable" is supported for eighteen months, so support for Woody should be phased out as soon as Etch is released. If they keep with the standard release cycle, eighteen months after that when Etch+1 is released, Sarge support will be phased out.

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