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Debian project leader Steve McIntyre has dismissed claims that the next stable version of Debian – codename Lenny – could be delayed until June 2009. Based on the number of outstanding release-critical bugs and the time it has taken to fix them on previous releases, Debian developer Bastian Venthur estimated it will take a …

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  1. NickR

    end of the month...

    Is that end of the month 2008 or 2009 ?

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  2. Chris Peterson
    Stop

    Software project behind schedule! News at 11!

    Especially Debian.

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  3. Quirkafleeg
    Go

    Place your bets

    I say early November.

    THIS year.

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  4. Adam Trickett
    Linux

    Why worry?

    I don't care when it comes out as long as it's good.

    Debian - good things come to those who wait...

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  5. Matthew Coulson

    Using Lenny at the moment

    It's fantastic already - a few minor bugs (nmbd doesn't like starting on boot, but starts fine afterwards) but it's a big improvement over Etch.

    Lets hope that pushing back the release means we get Lenny-and-a-half from the moment Lenny was supposed to hit stable.

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  6. A.Lizard

    so what?

    Premature OS releases usually are embarrassments for the groups that release them. Remember Vista? It isn't just MS. I actually tried OpenSUSE/KDE4 just after it escaped. Luckily, a guest VM is easy to blow away.

    Props to the Debian dev team for having sense enough to wait until they get it right.

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