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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 rcw-home · · Score: 5, Funny

      It's another text editor.

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

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

      --
      echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
    4. 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.

  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!

  3. 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!

    --
    I hate printers.
  4. 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!