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Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 Set for December

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the amazing-project dept.

dolson writes sends in a heartening update straight from the Debian project's news page: "The Debian project confirms December 2006 as the date for the next release of its distribution which will be named Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias 'etch'. This will be the first official release to include the AMD64 architecture. The distribution will be released synchronously for 11 architectures in total. At this stage, the upcoming release will ship with Linux 2.6.17 as its default kernel. This kernel will be used across all architectures and on the installer. A later version may be selected during a review in October. New features of this release include the GNU Compiler Collection 4.1 as default compiler. X.Org will replace XFree86 as implementation of the X Window System X11. Secure APT will add extra security by easily supporting strong cryptography and digital signatures to validate downloaded packages."

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  1. process by slack_prad · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I've heard a lot about Debian's testing process. Can anyone explain how it works .. and what makes it so stable?

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  2. Why? by Espectr0 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The world needs a stable distribution for servers. Seems Debian is risking its default model for stability in order to appear being updated often.

    I wonder if Ubuntu has got something to do with it...

    How many years passed between debian 3.0 and 3.1? The changes were big, and now in so much less time a whole number (4.0) gets released.

    What are the differences besides using a recent kernel for the first time?

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  3. 3.1 is the new 4.0 by XanC · · Score: 4, Interesting

    There were major changes for Sarge, aka 3.1. Somebody pointed out that it should be 4.0, and everyone agreed, but it was too late in the release cycle to change it. They figured as long as it was higher than 3.0 it didn't really matter.

  4. Re:OK, but... by KiloByte · · Score: 4, Interesting
    does it run... Oh, never mind.
    Don't laugh so loud, grasshopper. This question is adequate.
    And the answer is: yes. K*BSD arches are in good shape, but none of them are release candidates for Etch. Nexenta (OpenSolaris kernel) gathered so much bad karma because of Sun's CDDL's intentional incompatibilities with GPL causing problems that Nexenta isn't going to be an official arch anywhere soon. Debian/Hurd isn't that bad, but too bad, Hurd remains just a toy for now. And Debian/Minix stays at the level of talks for now. It's only Debian/win32 which died completely.
    So yeah, Etch does run Linux, but most likely Alien/Lenny/??? (Etch+1) will have K*BSD variants.
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  5. Newer GCC than Gentoo stable by makomk · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Hmmm... so they're moving to GCC 4.1? Hmmph - Gentoo stable is still stuck on the 3.4 series, at least on x86 and most architectures (mind you, it is a source-based distro, and moving to a new GCC major version is a big thing). I thought Debian was supposed to be behind the times, and Gentoo was supposed to be bleeding-edge?

    (Seriously, I run Gentoo unstable, but I've deliberately taken measures to avoid upgrading to GCC 4 - still not worth it IMO, at least until I can be sure most software will actually build successfully with it.)