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The current (at time of writing) stable distribution of Debian is 3.1, codenamed sarge. It was released on June 6th, 2005. Check http://www.debian.org/releases/ to ensure it is still current, and if not, come back and edit the wiki so it is. The current testing distribution is etch. Eventually, etch will become stable (a FeatureFreeze will occur), sarge will become an unsupported older distribution, and the testing tree will be reborn with a new name.
On a Debian machine, you can find out the version number of the installed distribution by looking in /etc/debian_version.
-Previous versions of stable have been named "woody", (debian version 3
., 2002),
"potato" (v2.2, 2000),
"slink" (v 2.1, 1999) "hamm" (v2., 1998),
"bo" (v1.3, 1997),
"rex" (v1.2, 1996), and
"buzz" (v1.1, 1996).
+Previous versions of stable have been named:
+ *
"woody", (v3
., 2002)
+ *
"potato" (v2.2, 2000)
+ *
"slink" (v 2.1, 1999)
+ *
"hamm" (v2., 1998)
+ *
"bo" (v1.3, 1997)
+ *
"rex" (v1.2, 1996)
+ *
"buzz" (v1.1, 1996).
The unstable distribution is called sid, and it doesn't get renamed.
The code names come from the movie Toy Story, because ex-Debian project leader BrucePerens used to work for Pixar. (He went on to become [HP]'s [Linux] evangelist, but was allegedly fired by HP for "microsoft-baiting".)
