Debian sarge release update
Posted Jun 2, 2005 8:17 UTC (Thu) by
amacater (subscriber, #790)
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Debian sarge release update by hensema
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Debian sarge release update
Debian Stable is intended to be stable. The new release has been three
years in the making - and in the testing. The previous release will be
supported for a further year - that will make four years in all. The latest
security update 3.0r6 occurred today. It's anticipated that Sarge, when
released, will be the stable release for a couple of years. If you want
more up to date software, you can use the "testing" branch, which now has
security support or even the "unstable" branch (always codenamed Sid).
Given 16,000 packages and 11 architectures and a volunteer workforce - and
the ease of moving from "old" stable to "new" stable, I think Debian
compares pretty well to say, moving from Red Hat Enterprise 3 to Red Hat
Enterprise 4 (which are less than two years apart) but appears to require a
full reinstall. The new Debian installer may default to kernel 2.4 on some
architectures if you just hit the enter key - if you type linux26, it will
install with kernel 2.6 out of the box. An install of a system running
Sarge and cloning of another system with several thousand packages
installed took me about 45 minutes the other day: one reboot was necessary.
[Disclaimer: I am a Debian developer - I am not speaking here on behalf of
the Debian project]
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