What’s Up With Debian?

Some dude on a forum the other day told me Debian was dead. I dismissed him as as a Gentoo freak until I noticed for the last week…


root@panther:/$ apt-get update
Hit http://mirrors.kernel.org testing/main Packages
Hit http://mirrors.kernel.org testing/main Release
Hit http://mirrors.kernel.org testing/main Sources
Hit http://mirrors.kernel.org testing/main Release
Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates/main Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates/main Release
Reading Package Lists… Done

root@panther:/$ apt-get upgrade
Reading Package Lists… Done
Building Dependency Tree… Done

0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

No testing updates? Odd.

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5 Responses to “What’s Up With Debian?”

  1. FewClues Says:

    Since they just released Sarge they may be taking a deserved break.

  2. Chris Says:

    That makes sense. Thanks.

  3. Eric Hancock Says:

    Is this stable?

  4. Chris Says:

    testing — etch

  5. Chris Says:

    They’re back on the job :) I just downloaded a boatload of updates for testing. Good to see.

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