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| Newer page: | version 10 | Last edited on Thursday, October 28, 2004 10:25:04 pm | by StuartYeates | Revert |
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There is a fourth criterion
; experimental : So unstable that unstable doesn't even want them. You have to get these packages from other apt repositories. They are labelled experiemental so you don't install them unless you __really really__ want to, and tell apt that with ''apt-get -t experimental package''.
-The current (at time of writing) stable distribution of Debian is 3.0r2
, codenamed woody. It was released on November 21st
, 2003
. 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 sarge. Eventually, sarge will become stable (a FeatureFreeze will occur), and then sarge will become stable, woody will become an unsupported older distribution, and a new name will be picked for the new testing tree.
+The current (at time of writing) stable distribution of Debian is 3.0r3
, codenamed woody. It was released on October 26th
, 2004
. 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 sarge. Eventually, sarge will become stable (a FeatureFreeze will occur), and then sarge will become stable, woody will become an unsupported older distribution, and a new name will be picked for the new testing tree.
On a debian machine, you can find out the version number of the installed
distribution by looking in /etc/debian_version.
