Freeze is a 'feature freeze'
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Basically, the 'freeze' means that there will be no new features added to the distribution, and that they will begin a rigorous testing and bug-hunting period, wherein they attempt to make it even more bug-free and tightly integrated than before. Potato (Debian 2.2) should go gold within a couple (few?) months after the freeze, which is good news to all the paranoid people who've been running slink all this time because they were affraid to run 'unstable'... I'm not one of those. I've found potato to be more 'stable' than most commercial dists already (RH6, etc)... Nonetheless, this is good news.:)
There are, in fact, Debian images for download. However, currently, they only have the stable releases for download (slink is the current, some also have the previous version, hamm)... When potato finally goes gold (after the feature freeze and bug-testing periods) it will be posted too. The mirrors list can always be found at: http://cdimage.debian.org/ftp-mirrors.html Hope this helps.
The next release of Debian is named "Woody"... Not sure who comes after Woody... I was told once, but I fergot... For all the latest Debian gossip and info, one should check out #debian on irc.debian.org.
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Basically, the 'freeze' means that there will be no new features added to the distribution, and that they will begin a rigorous testing and bug-hunting period, wherein they attempt to make it even more bug-free and tightly integrated than before. Potato (Debian 2.2) should go gold within a couple (few?) months after the freeze, which is good news to all the paranoid people who've been running slink all this time because they were affraid to run 'unstable'... I'm not one of those. I've found potato to be more 'stable' than most commercial dists already (RH6, etc)... Nonetheless, this is good news. :)
There are, in fact, Debian images for download. However, currently, they only have the stable releases for download (slink is the current, some also have the previous version, hamm)... When potato finally goes gold (after the feature freeze and bug-testing periods) it will be posted too. The mirrors list can always be found at: http://cdimage.debian.org/ftp-mirrors.html Hope this helps.
The next release of Debian is named "Woody"... Not sure who comes after Woody... I was told once, but I fergot... For all the latest Debian gossip and info, one should check out #debian on irc.debian.org.