What to expect in Debian 5: Lenny

Debian took a giant step forward recently towards releasing the next version of Debian, Lenny, by freezing the codebase. Now, the only major things standing between the next release of the popular Linux distribution are “fixes for release critical bugs” and “fixes for severity.”

There are several hundreds bugs left to smash before Lenny is released, but the fixes are already coming in. Unlike the last Debian release, Etch, which was delayed for several months by internal developer dissension, Lenny, however, has had a smooth development path. With any luck at all Lenny should appear, as scheduled, in September.

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