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Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 "Lenny" Released
Alexander "Tolimar" Reichle-Schmehl writes "The Debian Project is pleased to announce the official release of Debian GNU/Linux version 5.0 (codenamed Lenny) after 22 months of constant development. With 12 supported computer architectures, more than 23,000 packages built from over 12,000 source packages and 63 languages for the new graphical installer, this release sets new records, once again. Software available in 5.0 includes Linux 2.6.26, KDE 3.5.10, Gnome 2.22.2, X.Org 7.3, OpenOffice.org 2.4.1, GIMP 2.4.7, Iceweasel 3.0.6, Apache 2.2.9, Xen 3.2.1 and GCC 4.3.2. Other notable features are X autoconfiguring itself, full read-write support for NTFS, Java programs in the main repository and a single Blu-Ray disc installation media. You can get the ISOs via bittorrent. The Debian Project also wishes to announce that this release is dedicated to Thiemo Seufer, a Debian Developer who died on December 26th, 2008 in a tragic car accident. As a valuable member of the Debian Project, he will be sorely missed."
I'm using 4.2 here, you insensitive clod!
I wrote my first program at the age of six, and I still can't work out how this website works.
Savor this moment guys, a Debian release is like a Solar eclipse, you are lucky if you get to see one in your lifetime!
Duke Nukem Forever
You can't take the sky from me.
Not Lenny!
... and then they built the supercollider.
Slackware users use a gui?
Only to multiplex xterm, and xeyes to point to the mouse.
Stick Men
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Yes, it is a shame he died in a tragic car accident, instead of one of those non-tragic fatal accidents.
Yea, that Debian patch Tuesday is *such* a pain in the ass.
I hate printers.
I understand a number of them have been deferred to lenny.1, but I had expected this number to drop further before a release was made. Has Debian changed their release policy?
Yes, they actually made a release.
*drumroll*
Save your wrists today - switch to Dvorak
You can't beat the fantastic quality of Debian, especially when it comes to the fantastic work done with Valgrind and Purify to remove some of the bugs in the OpenSSL seeding code used to generate encryption keys. Obviously no closed source code could possibly live up to those marvellous standards. It's just not possible to write high quality closed source code. In fact the mere act of releasing previously closed source code under the GPL makes it high quality.
On slackware? Fess up - you're piping your pr0n through aalib or libcaca as ASCII-art. Otherwise, you're not really hard-core.
Just remember - until Linux gets a unified GUI to set the clock, it won't be ready for the desktop!
I totally agree. We all know they should be called
Micro$oft.
They have called me stupid, ugly, sad, etc
I can't stand those annoying adjectives.
now is long merge time.
I merge you long time!
No, I have no idea why that popped out.
real slackware users multiplex shells with gnu screen
Media that can be recorded and distributed can be recorded and distributed.
-kfg