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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."

3 of 189 comments (clear)

  1. Re:The ISOs for Etch are already out there... by cortana · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It installs XFCE instead of GNOME by default.

  2. Re:TWO! in one day? by charlieman · · Score: 1, Insightful

    And can not withstand it!

  3. Re:You have got to be fucking kidding me by Respect_my_Authority · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's better to read the release notes first -- these notes warn about some potential SargeToEtch upgrade problems and point out a safe upgrade path.

    http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/releasenotes