Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 8th Apr 2007 14:23 UTC, submitted by AhmadH
Debian and its clones "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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by qwerty2k on Sun 8th Apr 2007 19:48 UTC
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2007-04-08

im interested in trying/using debian, currently use ubuntu, but i see that etch ships with a rather old version of gnome, is 2.18 in any version of debian?

Edited 2007-04-08 19:49

RE: debian
by Anonymous Penguin on Sun 8th Apr 2007 19:58 in reply to "debian"
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2005-07-06

Well, now that stable has been released, I expect to see Gnome 2.18 in Sid soon, then in testing.

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