LinuxPlanet: The Debian Delay: Is Sarge MIA? Or Simply a POW of Process? | Linux Today

LinuxPlanet: The Debian Delay: Is Sarge MIA? Or Simply a POW of Process?

Written By
SMK
Sean Michael Kerner
Mar 4, 2005

“The latest release of Debian Linux, code named ‘Sarge’ was
supposed to report for duty at the end of last year. That didn’t
happen. Why has Sarge been delayed and ultimately does it matter?
Debian developers and Debian’s founding father talked to
LinuxPlanet about Sarge’s delay and its ultimate deployment.

“The Debian Linux distribution, which according to numerous
statistics is one of the most widely, installed Linux distributions
today is different from commercial distributions like Red Hat,
Novell/SUSE and Mandrake in that it doesn’t follow a necessarily
predictable release schedule…”

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Sean Michael Kerner

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