Debian's Testing Branch Nears Completion

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!"

Actually, no.

[PC and Sony Fanboy]

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.

How can this be?

[Anonymous Coward]

It's only been sixteen months since Etch was released, not three years! Something's wrong!

Re:How can this be?

[Darkness404]

No, you have to realize, this is like KDE 4, just because it is nearing completion doesn't mean that it will be released this year. That and Duke Nukem Forever.

Re:Dependencies are annoying.

[Telvin_3d]

Wait, your OS of choice has 50MB of extra stuff? Oh God, th world is ending! How will you possibly manage if you can't free up that massive portion of your dozens and dozens of GB of storage? It's a travesty! We should lynch the developers!

Re:Sigh, JPG screenshots

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

Just look at the icons in this shot [deviceguru.com]. The fellow is running more proprietary code than some windows boxes I've met. Just be glad they aren't .bmp or, even better, .wmf format.

Re:Actually, no.

[n1000]

Debian user here. What's fellatio?

Re:Actually, no.

[Anonymous Coward]

Ask your girlfriend. Ahhh, nevermind.

Re:Actually, no.

[dotgain]

Cue the 'apt-get ...' responses

Re:Sigh, JPG screenshots

[MrNaz]

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!

Re:freebsd

[westyvw]

ROFLMAO : If i want debian that ISNT as cutting edge? With the super fast release cycles of debian stable whizzing out of the gate so fast I too say : Slow Down, lets not get carried away!

Re:Actually, no.

[rcw-home]

It's another text editor.

Re:Actually, no.

[Hal_Porter]

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

Re:Actually, no.

[Divlje Jagode]

I'm using vi, you insensitive clod sucker!

This is not good.

[inode_buddha]

This is not good.They actually managed to get a new Debian version out before I got laid...

Re:freebsd

[beav007]

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!

Re:Actually, no.

[Anonymous Coward]

I tried Gnu/Fellatio once. She was okay, but I'm no longer allowed at the zoo.

Re:Actually, no.

[Nimey]

As a female friend of mine observed after I complained that women suck, "the good ones do!".

That was fast!

[Anonymous Coward]

Congrats, MrHanky! You're already on twitter's enemies list! [slashdot.org] Don't be surprised when twitter's mom tracks you down to yell at you for being mean to her little boy at the playground.

Re:More games = more interesting

[marcosdumay]

Also, KPatience should make it more clear that you can play some other kind of solitaire on it. The default one is too boring :)