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» 11/01/2007, 13:11:51 / / / Subscribe

Just for anyone that is interested this popped in my mail last night!

"The old stable release Debian GNU/Linux (codename 'woody') has been archived. The official source for this distribution is the dedicated archive host called archive.debian.org. It is no longer available on regular Debian mirror servers.

After four and a half years this marks the final end of life for GNU/Linux 3.0. This distribution has been superseded by Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (codename 'sarge') which the Debian project has released on June 6th, 2005. Security support for woody has therefore ended already in June 2006, one year after the release of sarge.

The Debian security team is able to support up to two distributions at the same time for about one year. This way users are given a one year period to upgrade their systems to the current stable distribution. After this period security support for the old stable distribution is discontinued and the distribution itself is archived on the dedicated archive host."

Source.

I use Sarge already so I won't have to do a thing but I'm really chuffed that after four years we've ticked on a version number for Debian. It's the most stable and mature of all the Linux Distro's and people like Ubuntu (and variants), Knoppix, Kanotix and many more owe a thanks to the Debian community considering that it is the basis of the distributions that they put out with there own icons and installer scripts. Huzzah for Debian :)

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#1. Neil
13/01/2007, 22:09:50

Sarge is a good word, A guy at work uses Ubuntu (at home) and it has to be said i have no real knowledge of the above.

I should get into it really.

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