Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 Set for December

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 Set for December 196

Posted by timothy on Monday July 24, 2006 @03:03PM from the amazing-project dept.

dolson writes sends in a heartening update straight from the Debian project's news page: "The Debian project confirms December 2006 as the date for the next release of its distribution which will be named Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias 'etch'. This will be the first official release to include the AMD64 architecture. The distribution will be released synchronously for 11 architectures in total. At this stage, the upcoming release will ship with Linux 2.6.17 as its default kernel. This kernel will be used across all architectures and on the installer. A later version may be selected during a review in October. New features of this release include the GNU Compiler Collection 4.1 as default compiler. X.Org will replace XFree86 as implementation of the X Window System X11. Secure APT will add extra security by easily supporting strong cryptography and digital signatures to validate downloaded packages."

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 Set for December

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OK, but... (Score:5, Funny)

by SchwarzeReiter ( 894411 ) writes: on Monday July 24, 2006 @03:05PM (#15771538)

does it run... Oh, never mind.

Debian turns me on. (Score:5, Funny)

by Reverend528 ( 585549 ) writes: on Monday July 24, 2006 @03:06PM (#15771545) Homepage

Reading about this release is giving me a Woody!

Just in time for Christmas (Score:5, Funny)

by Elros ( 735454 ) writes: on Monday July 24, 2006 @03:08PM (#15771564) Homepage

I wonder if anyone will buy it for me...oh...wait

Architectures. (Score:2, Funny)

by saintlupus ( 227599 ) writes: on Monday July 24, 2006 @03:13PM (#15771594)

Last I checked, Debian GNU/Linux didn't run terribly well on anything but x86 and ppc -- NetBSD was by far a better choice for something like a MIPS box or a VAX. Is that still the case?

--saint

Preview Release (Score:5, Funny)

by marciot ( 598356 ) writes: on Monday July 24, 2006 @03:15PM (#15771610)

Preview release is here [ubuntu.com]

(with apologies to the debian developers... I couldn't resist)

Re:Debian turns me on. (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday July 24, 2006 @03:16PM (#15771618)

Well, don't get your hopes up, the 2006 part could be a typo.

Re:Welcome (Score:2, Funny)

by TheUnknownOne ( 810624 ) writes: on Monday July 24, 2006 @03:17PM (#15771630)

And just in time for 2007 too!

Merry X(windows)mas (Score:4, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday July 24, 2006 @03:18PM (#15771636)

and a Happy GNU Year!

hahahahaha (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday July 24, 2006 @03:18PM (#15771637)

hahahahaha

Oh, you'rs serious???!!!!!

Nah, I'm just joking. I'm a debian user. I believe you.

Finally (Score:3, Funny)

by scenestar ( 828656 ) writes: on Monday July 24, 2006 @03:21PM (#15771664) Homepage Journal

Debian sarge has a near ancient feel for desktop use.

after mucking around With all those new desktop distros out there it will be refreshing to go back to good ole debian.

(Don"t give me that crap about apt-pinning, I know what it is, but I prefer simple apt-get freshness)

is there an election or something? (Score:5, Funny)

by mathx ( 988938 ) writes: on Monday July 24, 2006 @03:23PM (#15771679)

I thought debian only released in presidential election years...?

-math

Re:Debian turns me on. (Score:2, Funny)

by ShadowLeo ( 770494 ) writes: on Monday July 24, 2006 @03:36PM (#15771783)

Don't be such a Hamm.

Re:Architectures. (Score:3, Funny)

by HomerJ ( 11142 ) writes: on Monday July 24, 2006 @03:58PM (#15771958)

Why would you want to run anything else on a VAX other than good ol' VMS? I wish someone made an Itanium laptop, so I could run OpenVMS on a portable.

Re:is there an election or something? (Score:5, Funny)

by elzurawka ( 671029 ) writes: on Monday July 24, 2006 @04:13PM (#15772060)

Sometimes, when there is avery bad president, they choose to do it durring the congressional Elections

Is it Etchy Eft or Efty Etch? (Score:3, Funny)

by njchick ( 611256 ) writes: on Monday July 24, 2006 @04:25PM (#15772141) Journal

Oops, it's not Ubuntu, it's just plain Debian.

Re:OK, but... (Score:4, Funny)

by doti ( 966971 ) writes: on Monday July 24, 2006 @05:30PM (#15772558) Homepage

No.

It runs GNU/Linux.

The exact release date for etch (Score:4, Funny)

by SFSouthpaw ( 797536 ) writes: on Monday July 24, 2006 @05:47PM (#15772638) Homepage

is a bit sketchy.

Re:Debian turns me on. (Score:2, Funny)

by Bruce Perens ( 3872 ) * writes: <bruce@perens.com> on Monday July 24, 2006 @09:02PM (#15773358) Homepage Journal

It's great that there's so much Buzz about Debian!

Re:OK, but... (Score:3, Funny)

by Schraegstrichpunkt ( 931443 ) writes: on Monday July 24, 2006 @09:23PM (#15773408) Homepage

You don't need brk(), just a paging VM, and mmap().

Re:Debian turns me on. (Score:2, Funny)

by betasaur ( 12453 ) writes: on Tuesday July 25, 2006 @12:18AM (#15773896)

Finally, I'll be able to scratch that etch...

Re:Merry X(windows)mas (Score:3, Funny)

by cerberusss ( 660701 ) writes: on Tuesday July 25, 2006 @02:41AM (#15774293) Journal

Merry X(windows)mas!

[condescending unix computer user mode ON]
HELLO? it's either MerryXmas or Merry The X Window Systemmas.

[condescending unix computer user mode OFF]

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OK, but... (Score:5, Funny)

Debian turns me on. (Score:5, Funny)

Just in time for Christmas (Score:5, Funny)

Architectures. (Score:2, Funny)

Preview Release (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Debian turns me on. (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Welcome (Score:2, Funny)

Merry X(windows)mas (Score:4, Funny)

hahahahaha (Score:1, Funny)

Finally (Score:3, Funny)

is there an election or something? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Debian turns me on. (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Architectures. (Score:3, Funny)

Re:is there an election or something? (Score:5, Funny)

Is it Etchy Eft or Efty Etch? (Score:3, Funny)

Re:OK, but... (Score:4, Funny)

The exact release date for etch (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Debian turns me on. (Score:2, Funny)

Re:OK, but... (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Debian turns me on. (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Merry X(windows)mas (Score:3, Funny)

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