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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. Welcome by tomstdenis · · Score: 0, Troll

    To the year 2006.

    AMD64 support and a GCC newer than 2.95? Gee whiz, golly that's unheard of!

    Tom

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    Someday, I'll have a real sig.
  2. Can we also have... by jo42 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Apache 2.0 and MySQL 5.0?

  3. Re:Improved install? by KiloByte · · Score: 1, Troll

    Even Woody installer had the benefit of being stable. Try to install Ubuntu without random crashes all the way, including some Python entrails thrown into your face.

    I had the unpleasant experience of watching someone install Ubuntu Dapper recently; it's on the level of Windows! Eye-candy thrown in, everything hidden from the user, random faults without any reasonable way to debug.

    I would put an installer that works over one which looks pretty.

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    The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
  4. Re:Preview Release by Homology · · Score: 0, Troll
    Flamebait, pure and simple. Listen up, Debianistas: the only hard and fast requirements are encoded in the licenses under which software is released. So, comrades, point to me how the ubuntu project (or any of the other Debian daughters, like, say Xandros) violate the terms of the licenses under which software in the Debian project is released?

    Learn to read: No one claimed that Obonto violated licensenses. Obonto is just another commercial outfit that attempts to latch on the precieved goodwill of open source while advocating and encouraging binary blobs.

  5. Re:Preview Release by Homology · · Score: 0, Troll
    We don't have to like each other. But it would be nice if we could appreciate what we mean to each other collectively.

    Sure I appreciate what so many users stand for: demands for binary blobs instead of hardware documentation, and then the same users claim it is "immpossible to release it documentation" or demand that I show what business case there is to release said documentation.

    I see Obonto as a perversion of what Open Source stands for, but hey, the other commercials distros are following closely.