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[LINUX]Debian Maintainer Hints At September Release for Lenny

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praka123
praka123 Original post #1
Jul 25, 2008 at 3:23 PM
"The Debian project's maintainer, Luke Claes, announced in an email Saturday that he will freeze the 'testing' or 'Lenny' tree, in preparation for a new stable release of Debian Linux in ... September! The freeze means that open source software developers have only a couple more days to package any applications that they want to be included in the next release of Debian — and by extension, in the inner sanctum source lists of distributions such as Ubuntu that are based on it. After the freeze starts next week, Debian maintainers will turn their attention to 364 release-critical bugs, and half-a-dozen high-priority goals. Given the work to be done, is September really feasible? Lenny always was a little slow getting back to his right place ..."

-via slashdot
*linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/25/0027242
MetalheadGautham
Jul 25, 2008 at 3:49 PM
Lenny is freezed already, right ? So I suppose the only way people will get to use debian now with latest software and still be safe is Sidux...

Wonder whats the new one's name... :?