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Debian Maintainer Hints At September Release for Lenny

Posted by timothy on from the mr-kravitz-unjustly-accused dept.

nerdyH writes "The Debian project's maintainer, Luke Claes, announced in an email Saturday that he will freeze the 'testing' or 'Lenny' tree, in preparation for a new stable release of Debian Linux in ... September! The freeze means that open source software developers have only a couple more days to package any applications that they want to be included in the next release of Debian — and by extension, in the inner sanctum source lists of distributions such as Ubuntu that are based on it. After the freeze starts next week, Debian maintainers will turn their attention to 364 release-critical bugs, and half-a-dozen high-priority goals. Given the work to be done, is September really feasible? Lenny always was a little slow getting back to his right place ..."

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  1. Will the next release be Joe? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Law and Order fans want to know.

  2. Re:Obligatory "does it matter?" by Darkness404 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm excited either way because I 3 Debian!

    Well, I 4 Debian so I beat you.

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  3. Re:Packaging... meh. by AllIGotWasThisNick · · Score: 5, Funny

    Moderation -1

    100% Overrated

    Sorry. "Frosty piss".

  4. Re:Obligatory "does it matter?" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, I 8 Debian and she loved it.

  5. Lenny Brisco by Maestro485 · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's about time we had some Law and Order in that rogue Debian distro!

    1. Re:Lenny Brisco by Trogre · · Score: 2, Funny

      Not Lenny!

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    2. Re:Lenny Brisco by unPlugged-2.0 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Oh my god they killed Lenny. You Bastards!!!

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  6. Re:Obligatory "does it matter?" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Threesome?

  7. What? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    A new release already? That doesn't sound right.
    This isn't the Debian I grew up with.
    Something's fishy.

    1. Re:What? by WK2 · · Score: 5, Funny

      This is just a release announcement. As usual, they give you the month, but not the year.

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  8. Re:Obligatory "does it matter?" by beav007 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I've never know invalid HTML to crash IE. I don't think I've ever know IE to take any notice of the code at all. From what I've seen, it downloads the page, strips the code, and then throws whatever is left at the screen...

  9. Re:Obligatory "does it matter?" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Linux is illegal! You are breaking the law, and hurting yourself and your family with your ILLEGAL SOFTWARE. Your ip has been noted and is being forwarded to the SPA with a reccomendation that they investigate your CRIMINAL ACTIVITY. Please destroy all your unpatriotic linux software before the government finally cracks down on you people and you all end up as lampshades or soap.

  10. Re:Obligatory "does it matter?" by Jurily · · Score: 2, Funny

    or better off using Gentoo.

    I would, but I don't have a quad-core box yet.

  11. Why the name "Lenny"? by kyjl · · Score: 2, Funny

    Trump Ubuntu in their weird names, call it Lemmy instead.

    You might at least get a good look at Debian from people other than us just on the name alone.

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  12. September? by Cro+Magnon · · Score: 2, Funny

    Great! Did they say what year?

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