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Two Major Debian Releases In One Day

Posted by kdawson on from the busy-busy dept.

AndyCater writes "If all goes according to plan, Debian should release both an update to Debian Sarge (3.1r6, henceforth to be oldstable) and a new stable release (Debian 4.0, which was codenamed Etch) — and announce the results of the election for Debian Project Leader — all within 12 hours. Sarge was updated late on April 7th UTC, Sam Hocevar was announced as DPL at about 00:30 UTC, and preparations for the release of Debian Etch are ongoing and look good for later on the 8th."

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  1. TWO! in one day? by utexas+delirium · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't know if the Universe can withstand that.

    1. Re:TWO! in one day? by cyphercell · · Score: 4, Funny

      Hey if you were using FF 1.0 you'd be happy too.

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    2. Re:TWO! in one day? by ajlitt · · Score: 4, Funny

      If Duke Nukem Forever is announced as going gold on Monday, the Universe will suddenly cease to exist.

    3. Re:TWO! in one day? by SeaFox · · Score: 4, Funny

      I'm tagging this "pigsflying" which will group it with the story about Vista being released to manufacturing.

    4. Re:TWO! in one day? by marcosdumay · · Score: 4, Funny

      Now Debian also delays april fools jokes?

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    5. Re:TWO! in one day? by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 5, Funny

      You will wake up with a massive hangover and a traffic cone in your bed.

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    6. Re:TWO! in one day? by ajlitt · · Score: 4, Funny

      It's not a good night unless you get a traffic cone!

    7. Re:TWO! in one day? by matt+me · · Score: 4, Funny

      It's now 1700 UTC, and Debian Etch has officially been released. I've performed experiments and Planck's constant is constant. I think spacetime is safe from a resonance cascadAODF~@AFAL:VXCV SCV END CARRIER.

  2. the devs must be observing passover : ) by plasmacutter · · Score: 5, Funny

    western nations base their entire diet around bread, so passover takes a huge chunk out of nerd diets (i know first hand), so to compensate for the scarcity of kosher food, they must have guzzled more caffeinated beverages.. thus resulting in the warp speed rush to 4.0 ..

    well that's at least my theory : D

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  3. Article? by gringer · · Score: 4, Funny

    How can I not read the article if there's no article avaliable to not read?

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  4. In tribute of this momentous occasion by mushadv · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hell and winged pigs have collaborated in an effort to simultaneously freeze over and fly. Unfortunately, Satan's poor planning concerning the sequence of these events has rendered the high temperature conditions of the pig launchers devastatingly unsuitable for the hopeful swine. Meteorologists the world over predict a torrential rain of bacon.