Debian Aims For September Release Date

An anonymous submitter writes "Debian Planet has a good discussion of the most recent release update from the new Debian release managers. The most interesting point is the current hard freeze of base+standard and an optimistic but doable release date in September."

is this the one...

[Anonymous Coward]

...that features the new 2.0 kernel?

WHAT? Sarge might be RELEASED?

[JessLeah]

Isn't that one of the signs of the Apocalypse?

ode to 503

[grub]

five oh three
we've seen thee a lot two odd numbers sandwiching naught

seeing a good olde friend
such a grand time
a prime, a zero, another prime

we hope slashdot
doesn't fix their site
so we may enjoy you every night

grub

Let's try to be orderly

[Minwee]

Okay, this is a Debian thread, you all know the drill. Everybody who wants to make a crack about Debian packages being at least twenty years old by the time they are released form a line to the right.

Zealotous supporters of other Linux distributions over by the wall. If you have no clue how apt works but still want to say that rpm/emerge/tar is far superior, just raise your hand when we call on you.

If you think you're being pretty darn rebelious by railing against the use of "GNU/Linux", then stand over by the wading pool. We'll get to you once the grown-ups have had their say.

BSD supporters can congregate near the exit. We've heard some rumours about you and I want to make sure you have a clear path to the ambulance in case anything happens.

Everyone who thinks Yggdrasil is the one and only true distribution, there's a special thread for you over in the cafeteria.

Re:ode to 503

[Anonymous Coward]

At least this is Offtopic. That's better than 503 == No topic.

September?

[Cro Magnon]

Did they specify the year?

One possible reason for slow releases

[moberry]

There are ony SOO many toy story characters, after this there going to have to start naming them after the etch-a-sketch, piggy bank, etc. on the other hand.. there have been 2 sequals since woody was released.

Let's see...

[wiredog]

Doom III released... Check

Sarge released... Check

Slashdot works better with Internet Explorer than with Firefox... Check

Walls bleeding...Check.

Yup, it's the End Times.

Re:Let's see...

[gmhowell]

Yup, it's the End Times.

*bzzt* Sorry, you're wrong, thanks for playing. You forgot the perennial favorite:

Duke Nukem Forever... Who the hell knows.

Re:Let's see...

[garignak]

Close, but not yet. Duke Nukem Forever has not been released, yet. So, we're safe for now. ;)

Re:Let's try to be orderly

[Minwee]

You can both stand wherever you want.

Re:Debian...

[Anonymous Coward]

>> And to top off including 13,000+ packages,
>>they've even beaten the release times between
>> Microsoft's barebones desktop OSes Windows XP and
>> Longhorn

To be fair, you should mention that 1000 of those packages are Tetris clones or various marble games. :P

Re:Debian...

[cmacb]

I've managed to screw my system up with Stable too, but I don't think you can infer anything from that.

Well, you can, but I ignore it.

Re:Let's see...

[Anonymous Coward]

Firefox keeps a name for half a year... Check.

Sarge Release

[larry2k]

Debian Release will include a copy of Duke Nukem Forever, it is the true reason for the delay

The name fix

[Phillup]

To recap its stable then testing and finally unstable.

I think they could solve their name problems if they would rename everything like this:

Stable => Debian Server
Testing => Debian Desktop
Unstable => Debian Windows

Each name clearly denoting the level of stability for that branch.

(Let the flame wars begin ;-))

September of what year of what decade?

[Anonymous Coward]

You'd think people would not overlook specifics such as this, that are so important to Debian release dates.