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Debian Maintainer Hints At September Release for Lenny

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

    Moderation -1

    100% Overrated

    Sorry. "Frosty piss".

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

    Well, I 8 Debian and she loved it.

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

    Threesome?

  5. 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...

  6. 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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