Forward, can be inetresting<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Martin Zobel-Helas</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:zobel@debian.org">zobel@debian.org</a>></span><br>
Date: Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 4:13 PM<br>Subject: Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" frozen<br>To: <a href="mailto:debian-announce@lists.debian.org">debian-announce@lists.debian.org</a><br><br><br><br>
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The Debian Project <a href="http://www.debian.org/" target="_blank">http://www.debian.org/</a><br>
Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" frozen <a href="mailto:press@debian.org">press@debian.org</a><br>
August 6th, 2010 <a href="http://www.debian.org/News/2010/20100806" target="_blank">http://www.debian.org/News/2010/20100806</a><br>
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In this very moment, during the ongoing annual Debian Developer<br>
Conference "Debconf10" in New York, Debian's release managers have<br>
announced a major step in the development cycle of the upcoming stable<br>
release Debian 6.0 "Squeeze":<br>
<br>
Debian "Squeeze" has now been frozen.<br>
<br>
In consequence this means that no more new features will be added and<br>
all work will now be concentrated on polishing Debian "Squeeze" to<br>
achieve the quality Debian stable releases are known for.<br>
<br>
The upcoming release will use Linux 2.6.32 as its default kernel<br>
in the installer and on all Linux architectures.<br>
<br>
New features of the upcoming release include:<br>
* State of the art desktop environments, based on KDE 4.4.5, Gnome<br>
2.30.0, LXDE 0.5.0, XFCE 4.6.2, X.org 7.5, OpenOffice.org 3.2.1<br>
and many other applications.<br>
* Stable and current versions of common server software such as<br>
Apache 2.2.16, PHP 5.3.2, MySQL 5.1.48, PostgreSQL 8.4.4 and Samba<br>
3.4.<br>
* Modern interpreters and compilers for all common languages such as<br>
Python 2.6 and 3.1, Perl 5.10, GHC 6.12 and GCC 4.4.<br>
* DKMS, a framework to generate Linux kernel modules whose sources<br>
do not reside in the Linux kernel source tree.<br>
* Dependency-based ordering of init scripts using insserv, allowing<br>
parallel execution to shorten the time needed to boot the system.<br>
<br>
Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" will also be accompied by variants based on the<br>
FreeBSD kernel for amd64 and i386 machines, together with the GNU<br>
libc and userland as a "technology preview". Users of these versions<br>
however should be warned that the quality of these ports is still<br>
catching up with the outstanding high quality of our Linux ports,<br>
and that some advanced desktop features are not supported yet.<br>
However, the support of common server software is strong and extends<br>
the features of Linux-based Debian versions by the unique features<br>
known from the BSD world. This is the first time a Linux distribution<br>
has been extended to also allow use of a non-Linux kernel.<br>
<br>
<br>
Further work<br>
------------<br>
A number of bug squashing parties will be organized before the new<br>
distribution is released in order to classify and fix the remaining<br>
known problems in the new distribution. As the set of features has now<br>
been finalized for "Squeeze", developers can now begin to create<br>
documentation such as release notes and the installation guide.<br>
Interested users and developers are invited to join the #debian-bugs IRC<br>
channel on <a href="http://irc.debian.org" target="_blank">irc.debian.org</a> and help with these efforts or test out<br>
pre-release versions of "Squeeze". To support more users, the Debian<br>
project also asks for help with translating the new documentation to as<br>
many languages as possible.<br>
<br>
<br>
About Debian<br>
------------<br>
<br>
The Debian Project was founded in 1993 by Ian Murdock to be a truly<br>
free, community project. Since then the project has grown to be one of<br>
the largest and most influential open source projects. Over three<br>
thousand volunteers from all over the world work together to create and<br>
maintain Debian software. Translated into over 30 languages, and<br>
supporting a huge range of computer types, Debian calls itself the<br>
"universal operating system".<br>
<br>
<br>
Contact Information<br>
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<br>
For further information, please visit the Debian web pages at<br>
<a href="http://www.debian.org" target="_blank">www.debian.org</a> or send mail to <<a href="mailto:press@debian.org">press@debian.org</a>>.<br>
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