Tag Archive for 'Etch'

After many moons and suns, debian has finally released a new stable: Etch. I’ve been running Etch for over a year now (back when it was considered “testing”). With this release also means that the new “testing” version has been codenamed “Lenny.” To many Linux users, Debian is much like the Cadillac of Linux, being a very dependable distribution with a long maintenance cycle. It took the Debian developers 21 months to tweak Etch into a stable distribution. It’ll be at least 18 months before another stable version is released. And that is why I tend to keep my copy in the testing and unstable branches because a lot can happen in 18 months (KDE ought to have its new version 4.0 out well before then). Of course, with Ubuntu‘s latest version about to be released, this news won’t last long.