Yes, hell has frozen over, & if you're planning to place any crazy bets, today might be the day to do it: Debian has finally released Sarge! Holy mackeral, there's finally a new Debian stable! Amazing! Incredible! Let's hope that the new Debian management keeps up the pace & releases Debian on a more reasonable, modern rate. Please!
Software includes kernel 2.4.27 (yes, it's old, but this is stable, & it's childsplay to upgrade to 2.6), KDE 3.3 (upgrade to 3.4 using experimental, if you feel like it - I use it, & it's fine), GNOME 2.8 (same thing for GNOME 2.10), Firefox 1.0.4, Tbird 1.0.2, Apache 2.0.54 (1.3.33 is still available, for those running that version - I do!), PostgreSQL 7.4.7, XFree86 4.3 (but a switch to X.org is imminent), GCC 3.3.5, OpenOffice.org 1.1.3, and much, much, much more.
For more info, see the main Debian site.
If you use Debian, adjust your sources.list file & get to APTing!
1. I was a Debian testing user before the sarge release was announced.
I switched over to Kubuntu last week and have no regrets whatsoever.
Do give it a try at
http://www.kubuntu.org/
Posted at 6:34AM on Dec 19th 2005 by R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar