Two Major Debian Releases In One Day 189
AndyCater writes "If all goes according to plan, Debian should release both an update to Debian Sarge (3.1r6, henceforth to be oldstable) and a new stable release (Debian 4.0, which was codenamed Etch) — and announce the results of the election for Debian Project Leader — all within 12 hours. Sarge was updated late on April 7th UTC, Sam Hocevar was announced as DPL at about 00:30 UTC, and preparations for the release of Debian Etch are ongoing and look good for later on the 8th."
Hmm... I can still see bugs in their tracker (Score:5, Interesting)
Have they decided to postpone their resolution until R2?
List of Etch release parties (Score:5, Interesting)
http://wiki.debian.org/ReleasePartyEtch [debian.org]
The Wow Starts Now! (Score:5, Interesting)
Two releases in one day! This is like a turtle suddenly accelerating to lightspeed. It should shut up the people who say the Debian cycle is slow! Good thing they've nearly caught up to Windows; only 2.0 more versions to go!
In all seriousness, this stable came out over a year more quickly than 3.0 -> 3.1. That's nice to see. I'm looking forward to giving it a whirl.
Kinda OT (Score:2, Interesting)
Distros are not a hot topic anymore
where are all the debate about the best distro
or the best desktop environment
the source based vs binary based
where is gentoo where is mandriva where is slackware
The distro arena kinda became dry, or it matured I dunno
Is it time to really standardize linux?
finally, sid and testing can get moving again (Score:5, Interesting)
Congratulations Debian! (Score:2, Interesting)
Ah, Etch is finally out the door and it's time to start tracking Lenny. Congrats to all you developers whose amazing skill and hard work ensures that debian stays my favourite distro!
Sam Hocevar had this year the most interesting DPL candidate platform, IMHO. Not that my opinion matters 'cause I'm not a developer myself and, hence, not qualified to vote. Also, it doesn't look like the DPL would have much power to change things. Best of luck Sam -- this time next year we'll know how good you are in herding cats. And don't forget to write those regular DPL reports you promised in your platform.
BTW, does anyone have any idea why so many votes were rejected in this year's DPL election?
Re:finally, sid and testing can get moving again (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Do you know who SAM Hocevar really is? (Score:2, Interesting)
Btw zoy.org isn't exclusively used by him even if it belongs to Sam, if you want to go to Sam's website, the proper URL is http://sam.zoy.org [zoy.org].
Yes he is somewhat of a troll and he's a GNAA member, a goatsex troll fan and certainly more, so what? He's also an excellent hacker and Free Software contributor (he played a major role in VideoLan/VLC which is now the best video player around here). What's more, his platform was the best. I for one am really satisfied with this year's DPL election.