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Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 released
| From: | Martin Schulze <joey-AT-infodrom.org> | |
| To: | Debian Announcements <debian-announce-AT-lists.debian.org> | |
| Subject: | Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 released | |
| Date: | Mon, 6 Jun 2005 23:39:54 +0200 |
------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 released press@debian.org June 6th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/News/2005/20050606 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 released The Debian Project is pleased to announce the official release of Debian GNU/Linux version 3.1 codenamed ``sarge'' after nearly three years of constant development. Debian GNU/Linux is a free operating system which supports a total of eleven processor architectures, includes KDE, GNOME and GNUstep desktop environments, features cryptographic software, is compatible with the FHS v2.3, and supports software developed for the LSB. With the development of the new debian-installer, this release features a new, modular and sophisticated installation routine with integrated hardware detection and unattended installation capabilities. The installation is available in about thirty languages and includes configuration of the X server for many graphic cards. The task selection system has been revamped and made more flexible. The debconf tool has been integrated into most packages that need to be configured and makes this easier and more user friendly. Debian GNU/Linux can be installed from various installation media such as DVDs, CDs, USB sticks, a few floppies, or from the network. It can be downloaded now, and will soon be available on DVD and CD-ROM from numerous vendors <http://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/>>. Debian GNU/Linux runs on computers ranging from palmtops and handheld systems to supercomputers, and on nearly everything in between. A total of eleven architectures are supported, including Motorola 68k (m68k), Sun SPARC (sparc), HP Alpha (alpha), Motorola/IBM PowerPC (powerpc), Intel IA-32 (i386) and IA-64 (ia64), HP PA-RISC (hppa), MIPS (mips, mipsel), ARM (arm) and IBM S/390 (s390). This release includes a number of up-to-date large software packages, such as the K Desktop Environment 3.3 (KDE), the GNOME desktop environment 2.8, the GNUstep desktop, XFree86 4.3.0, GIMP 2.2.6, Mozilla 1.7.8, Galeon 1.3.20, Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2, Firefox 1.0.4, PostgreSQL 7.4.7, MySQL 4.0.24 and 4.1.11a, GNU Compiler Collection 3.3.5 (GCC), Linux kernel versions 2.4.27 and 2.6.8, Apache 1.3.33 and 2.0.54, Samba 3.0.14, Python 2.3.5 and 2.4.1, Perl 5.8.4 and much more. This is the first Debian release that includes OpenOffice.org (1.1.3). It also features cryptographic software integrated in the main distribution. OpenSSH and GNU Privacy Guard are included in the default installation, and strong encryption is present in web browsers, web servers, databases, and many other applications available in this release. Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 includes the efforts of the Debian-Edu/Skolelinux, Debian-Med and Debian-Accessibility sub-projects which boosted the number of educational packages and those with a medical affiliation as well as packages designed especially for people with disabilities. Upgrades to Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 from the previous release Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 codenamed ``woody'' are automatically handled by the aptitude package management tool, and to a certain degree also by the apt-get package management tool. As always, Debian GNU/Linux systems can be upgraded painlessly, in place, without any forced downtime. For detailed instructions about installing and upgrading Debian GNU/Linux, please see the release notes <http://www.debian.org/releases/sarge/releasenotes>>. About Debian ------------ Debian GNU/Linux is a free operating system, developed by more than thousand volunteers from all over the world who collaborate via the Internet. Debian's dedication to Free Software, its non-profit nature, and its open development model make it unique among GNU/Linux distributions. The Debian project's key strengths are its volunteer base, its dedication to the Debian Social Contract, and its commitment to provide the best operating system possible. Debian 3.1 is another important step in that direction. Contact Information ------------------- For further information, please visit the Debian web pages at <http://www.debian.org/>> or send mail to <press@debian.org>.</p> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-announce-REQUEST@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
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Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 released: Thank you!
Posted Jun 6, 2005 22:42 UTC (Mon) by stuart (subscriber, #623) [Link]
Congratulations to the whole Debian developer team. Here's to another rock solid stable release.
Thanks for all your hard work.
Stu.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 released
Posted Jun 6, 2005 22:58 UTC (Mon) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link]
# apt-get update Get:1 ftp://ftp.at.debian.org stable/main Packages [3347kB] ...Whoohoo!
Congratulations to everyone involved. Well done!
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 released
Posted Jun 6, 2005 22:59 UTC (Mon) by MaRZ (subscriber, #13307) [Link]
Cheers.
Finally it is time to buy another T-Shirt!
After some frustration, and patience, we got another job welldone. Thank you and I hope to join this team in the future, not like an user, but in a humble developer skin!
At expenses of that delay, I've tested another aproach that face me with another distro (gentoo), and now I have two distro to compare and be happy. Well even on faults or problems we get real profit using Debian... I cannot stop to use that anymore, since 1999 and probably forever !
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 released
Posted Jun 6, 2005 23:49 UTC (Mon) by darthmdh (guest, #8032) [Link]
Bugger, there goes the ten bucks I put on the four horses of the apocalypse being released before sarge ;-)
Seriously, well done to the release team and all the DDs and others who squished the RC bugs, and to the new leadership team for what they've done to make this a reality.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 released
Posted Jun 7, 2005 2:57 UTC (Tue) by nurhussein (guest, #16226) [Link]
Bugger, there goes the ten bucks I put on the four horses of the apocalypse being released before sarge ;-)Well, if it's any consolation to you, Steve Jobs announced that Apple will move to Intel right before the release of Sarge. Does that count?
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 released
Posted Jun 7, 2005 13:05 UTC (Tue) by MLKahnt (subscriber, #6642) [Link]
Okay, bring on the comments about how dated Red Hat, SuSE, Mandriva and all the others are ;)
Seriously, like most others, I have run Sarge from shortly after Woody was released, with some interjections from Sid, on my desktop, and have moved most of my clients to Sarge over the last year on their desktops. Servers have been tested for Sarge upgrades for my clients, but that will likely not happen for another month for all but a few - not all give me the okay to do that migration yet.
Which will arrive first, however - Etch or Longhorn?
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 released
Posted Jun 7, 2005 15:22 UTC (Tue) by kena (subscriber, #2735) [Link]
I'd love to say Etch will beat Longhorn... but I don't think so. Longhorn's ship date continues to slip, but let's face it: Debian has the longest time between releases of most *any* active project -- open or closed -- that I know.
That being said, Yay! Truth be told, I'm happier that Sid will now become "testing" than that Sarge will be "stable:" I've been using Sarge -- yes, even on my servers -- since '03.
Now the real questions:
1) Will 64-bit x-86 be well supported? (It wasn't that hot two months ago.)
2) Will there be pruning of the platforms?
It'll be very, very interesting to see where Debian is five years from now...
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 released
Posted Jun 7, 2005 16:41 UTC (Tue) by jonth (subscriber, #4008) [Link]
Sid will not become testing. The new names are:
stable=sarge (was woody)
testing=etch (was sarge)
unstable=sid (was sid)
To be honest, I've never understood why this is like this. I always thought the point of named releases was that they moved from unstable->stable, but they remained the same. Whatever.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 released
Posted Jun 7, 2005 17:23 UTC (Tue) by jstAusr (guest, #27224) [Link]
Because Sid can break your toys! You wouldn't want Sid in a testing or stable release would you?
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 released
Posted Jun 7, 2005 18:03 UTC (Tue) by jeroen (subscriber, #12372) [Link]
As far as I understand it, when Etch is created it will be the same as sarge, not the same as sid. Then the normal testing ftp scripts start running, just like before the freeze, and all not buggy packages from sid will enter etch. So sarge moves to stable, and a new testing (etch) is created. Sid keeps being unstable. The names reflect that.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 released
Posted Jun 8, 2005 6:39 UTC (Wed) by gjheydon (guest, #4209) [Link]
basically because Sid is a little unstable.
About the next Debian release.
Posted Jun 7, 2005 23:12 UTC (Tue) by ender (subscriber, #13629) [Link]
It is easy now to say that we will try to not make happen this again. Sarge release took too much time and energy for almost all of us. It has even 'forced' several developers to resign from Debian (their own position, because nobody forces someone to enter or resign from Debian). We will try to release again in 12-18 months, a reliable timeframe. This release has put apart a lot of modern software (KDE 3.4, xorg 6.8.2 the first ones in my memory) for stabilizing the release.
What you refer to by '64-bit x86' I guess that is the AMD architecture called amd64. IA64 (from Intel) was supported back in woody. The architecture will release in a few days, because it was not included in mainstream Debian. Just after the release of sarge, the ftpmasters will merge the amd64 tree into the main archive, and the amd64 architecture will be definitely another one.
About the pruning of platforms, I suppose that you refer to the 'Vancouver proposal' by the Debian Release Team. I suppose that yes, the number of architectures able to cause release problems will be at least cut in half. Only i386, ia64, amd64, arm, and any other 'modern' architecture. The remaining ones will be 'second class citizens' (SCC) and will have parallel releases, but not hard-related to the normal one. Search in Google by 'vancouver proposal' for the complete mail.
I hope that it helps. Best regards.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 released
Posted Jun 7, 2005 13:13 UTC (Tue) by peace (guest, #10016) [Link]
Congradulations to the Debian team! It's the fine wine of Linux distributions.
Good news...
Posted Jun 8, 2005 0:07 UTC (Wed) by freethinker (guest, #4397) [Link]
...but unexpected. Still 20-30 release critical bugs, two or three of them in base. I thought it was supposed to be zero before releasing.
Good news...
Posted Jun 8, 2005 13:33 UTC (Wed) by vorlon42 (subscriber, #28435) [Link]
Two of the packages listed on that page are not actually part of base (or part of sarge at all). A bug on a third package doesn't apply to the version that was released; and the fourth bug was only identified as being of release-critical severity after the release. Which certainly happens sometimes -- anyway, I would hope people actually *try* sarge and compare it to woody, instead of criticizing it for the appearance of release-critical bugs (which, by definition, are not release critical if they didn't stop us from releasing...)
Good news...
Posted Jun 8, 2005 23:24 UTC (Wed) by freethinker (guest, #4397) [Link]
I've been using sid for a couple of years, I think, so I guess you could say I've tried "sarge plus a little instability". I just thought it was policy not to release while there were any RC bugs; the emails from the RM seem to imply that.
If the packages with bugs on that page aren't in base (and, now that I check, they aren't), why are they there? Isn't that page just for base?
Good news...
Posted Jun 9, 2005 0:04 UTC (Thu) by vorlon42 (subscriber, #28435) [Link]
Yes, that page is for base; the packages in question were in base at one point, but are not currently, and are not in sarge at all. It's merely a bug in the web page -- bugs in web pages don't necessarily receive the same attention as bugs in packages :)