It's finally here! Debian 4.0

[Ric_]

El Reg briefly tells of the final release at http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/10/debian_update/

 

Also check out http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/releasenotes for the changes.

 

You can get Etch from http://www.debian.org/distrib/ - now go and play with my favourite flavour of Linux

[ChrisH]

Debian is that like Ubuntu or something?

[webman]

What's a Debian release? :shock:

[ChrisH]

What's a Debian release? :shock:

 

I shall ask the history teacher at work to look it up in the books .

[linuxgirlie]

I have been using Debian Etch on my laptop for ages, its quite good, but I have an urge to try Ubuntu (haven't so far, well ok I had it installed on a machine for a day but that doesn't count) to find out what the fuss is about.

 

Jo

[ChrisH]

Its nothing special really compared to what its derived from.

[Dos_Box]

What's a Debian release? :shock:

 

It's a bit like Halleys comet.

[localzuk]

Ooh, thems fighting words ChrisH!! Lets miss out the usual flame wars and go right to the duel. Pistols at 10 paces? Or should we make it interesting? SIMS server throwing at 10 paces?

[webman]

I like Ubuntu... eagerly awaiting the 19th for 7.04

[ChrisH]

Ooh, thems fighting words ChrisH!! Lets miss out the usual flame wars and go right to the duel. Pistols at 10 paces? Or should we make it interesting? SIMS server throwing at 10 paces?

 

I wouldnt fancy trying to chuck my SIMs server tbh. Maybe one of our 1U servers

[webman]

Maybe we could turn Server-Tossing into an annual event

[localzuk]

I wouldnt fancy trying to chuck my SIMs server tbh. Maybe one of our 1U servers

 

I'm liking this more now I'm likely to come out on top then, as we use a 1U server as our sims server.

 

How about CRT tossing? We all have plenty of those spare!

[webman]

Yes, we could swing them by their VGA cables

[localzuk]

We would have to figure out a way of making it into an expenses paid trip by the school too, at some sort of exotic location, say Mallorca or Ibiza?

 

(Note: I may have been reading too much BOFH...)

[webman]

Advantages are two-fold: Get rid of old crap, and de-stress in accordance to the err... health and safety and staff wellbeing policy 8)

 

Read Episode 12 yet?

[_Bat_]

Haha, how often is the bas***d released anyway? I reckon it should be a daily thing.

 

As for the tossing contest, I have a large number of hp deskjet 640c printers that I can freely contribute. Then again, without them, I'd probably be made redundant.

[Joedetic]

I <3 debian. It's my prefered distro. As great as ubuntu is for just working with whatever you care to throw at it, I still prefer deb.

 

I always use the unstable version (or is it testing, i cant remember what my netinst disk is now). It's always awesome. Never really had any problems with it. Although, trying to mac spoof on a CLI installation to attach myself to the university's in halls internet then apt-get X and gnome etc is a PITA...i just registered my MAC address on my new computer in the end.

 

(I dont actually boot it any more. Too much software such as Pro Engineer (Prodesktop's big brother), Multisim, labview etc needed for my degree runs better / is easier to install on windows.)

[Geoff]

Haha, how often is the bas***d released anyway? I reckon it should be a daily thing.

 

You're describing Gentoo.