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Dunc-Tank To Help Meet Debian Etch Deadline

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the pay-me-now-or-pay-me-later dept.

Da Massive writes, "Debian GNU/Linux is experimenting with a new project called Dunc-Tank, which is aimed at securing funding to pay two key release managers — Steve Langasek and Andi Barth — in an effort to ensure the forthcoming Debian 4.0, known as etch, is released on time in December." Dunc-Tank is not affiliated with the Debian Project directly, and in fact was controversial on the debian-private list.

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  1. Vista anyone? by lemur3 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I am sure paying these folk will get this Debian release out on time. Money always motivates people to work harder and faster.. and it always makes sure a deadline will be met...

  2. oh oh... by advocate_one · · Score: 2, Funny
    Towns said a new version of X is expected to be included in unstable in the next day or two, which should allow Debian to support some of the compositing techniques that provide similar features to Mac OS X's "Expose".

    haven't they frozen the features of Etch yet??? It's awfully short now to December...

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