Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 8th Apr 2007 14:23 UTC, submitted by AhmadH
"The Debian Project is pleased to announce the official release of Debian GNU/Linux version 4.0, codenamed etch, after 21 months of constant development. Debian GNU/Linux is a free operating system which supports a total of eleven processor architectures and includes the KDE, GNOME and Xfce desktop environments. It also features cryptographic software and compatibility with the FHS v2.3 and software developed for version 3.1 of the LSB. Using a now fully integrated installation process, Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 comes with out-of-the-box support for encrypted partitions. This release introduces a newly developed graphical frontend to the installation system supporting scripts using composed characters and complex languages; the installation system for Debian GNU/Linux has now been translated to 58 languages." Update: Debian 3.1r6 has also been released. Update II: Screenshots, and how to upgrade to it.
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I'm sure Debian is a fine server OS from a technical point of view, but the advantage of Ubuntu over Debian is that it have better financial backing and a fixed end of support date (2011 for the current server version). This makes Ubuntu much more attractive to e.g. CEOs.
Other than that, without Debian there would have been no Ubuntu. So there is all reason in the world for Debian developers and users to celebrate the new release.
Edited 2007-04-08 17:52
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2005-07-06
Eclipsed? Perhaps on the desktop, that much I'd concede, I'm running it on my computers on the desktop, but on my servers? Sorry, I'll stick with Pure Debian or baring that, CentOS.