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Debian's Testing Branch Nears Completion

Posted by timothy on from the apt-remains-a-fantastic-argument dept.

DeviceGuru writes "With Debian Lenny (aka 'testing') poised to displace Etch as the popular Linux distribution's 'stable' branch possibly as soon as next month, blogger Rick Lehrbaum loaded the latest preview (beta 2) of Lenny's KDE CD image onto an available Thinkpad, and took it for a spin. How's it coming along? After detailing a handful of issues — and offering solutions for each (except Bluetooth support) — he concludes: 'Other than the need for a few hacks and fixes, my main complaint with it is its inclusion of way too many of KDE's rich set of applications, such as games, tools, etc.' From the looks of it, looks like Lenny might be the new 'Debian stable' soon!"

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  1. Actually, no. by PC+and+Sony+Fanboy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Like ubuntu, it is impossible for it to provide fellatio. As I understand it, you generally have to pay for that sort of service, and linux is (mostly) free.

    1. Re:Actually, no. by n1000 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Debian user here. What's fellatio?

    2. Re:Actually, no. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Ask your girlfriend. Ahhh, nevermind.

    3. Re:Actually, no. by dotgain · · Score: 2, Funny

      Cue the 'apt-get ...' responses

    4. Re:Actually, no. by rcw-home · · Score: 5, Funny

      It's another text editor.

    5. Re:Actually, no. by Hal_Porter · · Score: 5, Funny

      It's called GNU/Fellatio in Debian. Fascist.

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    6. Re:Actually, no. by Divlje+Jagode · · Score: 2, Funny

      I'm using vi, you insensitive clod sucker!

    7. Re:Actually, no. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      I tried Gnu/Fellatio once. She was okay, but I'm no longer allowed at the zoo.

    8. Re:Actually, no. by Nimey · · Score: 2, Funny

      As a female friend of mine observed after I complained that women suck, "the good ones do!".

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  2. How can this be? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's only been sixteen months since Etch was released, not three years! Something's wrong!

    1. Re:How can this be? by Darkness404 · · Score: 2, Funny

      No, you have to realize, this is like KDE 4, just because it is nearing completion doesn't mean that it will be released this year. That and Duke Nukem Forever.

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  3. Re:Dependencies are annoying. by Telvin_3d · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wait, your OS of choice has 50MB of extra stuff? Oh God, th world is ending! How will you possibly manage if you can't free up that massive portion of your dozens and dozens of GB of storage? It's a travesty! We should lynch the developers!

  4. Re:Sigh, JPG screenshots by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just look at the icons in this shot. The fellow is running more proprietary code than some windows boxes I've met. Just be glad they aren't .bmp or, even better, .wmf format.

  5. Re:Sigh, JPG screenshots by MrNaz · · Score: 5, Funny

    Please can you tell us more about the windows boxes you met. What are they like to talk to? Are they overly trusting? I bet they're the polar opposite of the OpenBSD boxes I met. The conversation went like this:

    Me: Hi guys! Enjoying the tofu at this conference?
    OpenBSD_box1: Who the fuck are you?
    OpenBSD_box2: We don't know you, get lost before we beat you to a pulp.
    OpenBSD_box1: He's leaving, but let's beat him anyway!
    OpenBSD_box3: Hey! He's still conscious! You guys are such slackers!

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  6. Re:freebsd by westyvw · · Score: 4, Funny

    ROFLMAO : If i want debian that ISNT as cutting edge? With the super fast release cycles of debian stable whizzing out of the gate so fast I too say : Slow Down, lets not get carried away!

  7. This is not good. by inode_buddha · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is not good.They actually managed to get a new Debian version out before I got laid...

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  8. Re:freebsd by beav007 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I resent that. I'm personally looking forward to the new release of Debian. I've been hearing good things about KDE3, so I'm hoping that it's stable enough to be included in this version.

    I also hear that some mysterious issues with OpenSSL have been fixed by Debian developers, which could save us from memory leaks and increase performance. Personally, I'm amazed that the OpenSSL devs haven't fixed this issue themselves yet.

    Obviously, this distro is where all the exciting new development action happens. I'm very excited to be on the bleeding edge with Debian!

  9. That was fast! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Congrats, MrHanky! You're already on twitter's enemies list! Don't be surprised when twitter's mom tracks you down to yell at you for being mean to her little boy at the playground.

  10. Re:More games = more interesting by marcosdumay · · Score: 2, Funny

    Also, KPatience should make it more clear that you can play some other kind of solitaire on it. The default one is too boring :)

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