Code freeze for Debian 6.0 Squeeze expected in August

The Debian release team are sounding the alarm: With only one month left before the planned release freeze, the number of critical bugs in Debian 6.0 Squeeze is still far too high to freeze development and create the next stable version of Debian.

 Debian developer Alexander Reichle-Schmehl has announced that security support for Debian 4.0 (code named "Etch") will end on the 15th of February, 2010.

 The Debian Project developers have issued the fifth maintenance update to Debian 5.0, code named "Lenny". The latest stable release includes an updated version of the Debian installer and addresses several bugs and security issues found in January's 5.0.4 release.

The CPU beep is a really irritating thing in Linux distros and sometimes the graphical sound manager does not work when shutting it up. Fortunately there is a simple way to do it in terminal. In Ubuntu (and distros based upon it) type: gksudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist In Debian type:

Squeeze has been frozen for some time now, and hopefully will be released by the end of the year, and today the Debian team has revealed the name of the next Debian release 7.0: Wheezy.

Freeze status ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Squeeze has been frozen for some time now, and the previously mentioned relaxed attitude towards new releases will be hardened.

Almost all the major Linux distributions are using LibreOffice instead of OpenOffice. Today, it has been announced that Debian Squeeze too will get LibreOffice in the backports.LibreOffice has been available in Debian Wheezy and Debian Sid for a while now. But in the stable release, Debian Squeeze, it is not available.

Netcraft hasn't confirmed it, but the upcoming release of Debian, codenamed Squeeze, will be available in a juicy new FreeBSD flavour alongside the regular Linux version.

After 24 months of constant development, the Debian Project is proud to present its new stable version 6.0 (code name "Squeeze"). Debian 6.0 is a free operating system, coming for the first time in two flavours. Alongside Debian GNU/Linux, Debian GNU/kFreeBSD is introduced with this version as a "technology preview".

 We are seeing dozens and dozens of posts on the internet about Ubuntu. I am not telling that I dislike Ubuntu, but I think that a lot of people are not aware that Ubuntu is Debian based. News about Debian is scarce. We are waiting for a new stable release and Squeeze is hopefully becoming stable this year.