[linuxiran] Debian Sarge release estimates

[Aryan Ameri]

Hi there:

I know that some of people in this mailing list, are interested in this, 
so I wanted to inform you that Drew Scott Daniels has perdicted when 
Sarge will be released, and what it will contain. Sarge (Or debian 3.1 
when it gets released) still has 6 months to finish it's projects; 
which include:

- The debian-installer needs to be finnished (2 months?)
- The gcc 3.3 transition needs to complete (3 months?)
- XFree86 4.2.1-7 or 4.3.0 should be completed (2 months?)
- Gnome2 should to go into testing (1 month?)
- KDE should go into testing (4 months?)
- apt and dpkg version for sarge should be decided, 
internationalization?
- cvs updates? hooks? (4 months?)
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6 months (4 months max plus 2 months worth of glitches and forgoten 
stuff)

This means that approximately 6 months from now, sarge will go into 
freeze. The freeze period will also (hopefully) only take 6 months. 
This means that sarge should be released 1 year from now.

Sarge will include

gcc 3.3
KDE 3.1
Gnome 2.2
Linux 2.4.x
XFree86 4.2.1 or 4.3.0 (not decided yet)

Remember that this is Debian, and when it gets released, as always, it 
is not bleeding edge. 1 year from now, all other distros of GNU/Linux 
will have KDE 3.2 (should be released 8 months from now) Gnome 2.4 
(should be released this year) and probably a 2.6 kernel.  

Also, sarge should have a new installer. The new installer (probably) 
wouldn't be graphical, and it (probably) wouldnt' have things like 
hardware auto-detection, but it should be far better that the current 
one (which was written in 1996 by Bruce Perens).

Another thing is, Debian is working on FeeBSD and NetBSD kernels, to 
deliver Debian and GNU user-land prgrams with those kernels. If things 
go well, Debian GNU/FreeBSD and Debian GNU/NetBSD might also be 
released next year (it is just an estimation though).

For more information regarding sarge release information take a look at 
http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2003/debian-release-200306/msg00004.html

Cheers

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Aryan Ameri