Debian Etch to be Released in December

lord_rob the only on writes "According to a ZDNet article, the next release of Debian should be available in December 2006. From the article : 'The date represents a dramatic improvement in the regularity of Debian's development cycle. Etch will be shipped only 18 months after the previous release, version 3.1.'

Let me be the first to say...

[zaguar]

Some might like it, but 18 months is a long, long time. With distro's like Ubuntu releasing every 6 months (yes, I know about Dapper's delay) with a relatively STABLE product with cutting edge features (Gnome 2.14), is it time for Debian to rethink their policy.

I'm not suggesting Debian shouldn't have long releases schedules (it ensures a rock-solid product), but only that they consider what it is doing to the userbase.

Etch? Where have I been?

[LightningTH]

/# cat /etc/debian_version
2.2 /# cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.2.19 (root@matrix) (gcc version 2.95.2 20000220 (Debian GNU/Linux)) #11 Wed May 28 23:36:14 EDT 2003

I'm still on Potato. It's been stable and online for the last 6 years (as I recall upgrading to potato from slink). Give me a good reason to upgrade being this is my web/mail/dns/ftp box.

ps: cpu info shows AMD K5 75mhz