A touch of sadness as Lenny emerges
The release of a stable version of Debian GNU/Linux is normally a time of rejoicing and celebration for the 1000-plus geeks who provide Linux users with one of the best distributions going.
But the emergence of Lenny, or version 5.0, on Saturday, February 14, will be tinged with some sadness as well, following the death of a developer in a tragic accident last year.
Debian project leader (DPL) Steve Mcintyre said: "We will be dedicating the Lenny release to our long-term contributor and friend Thiemo Seufer, who was tragically killed in a car accident in Germany on December 26 last year.
"He was responsible for much of the work on the Debian MIPS ports and was always happy to help, sharing his technical excellence and good humour with many of us over the years. Thiemo's tireless efforts in Debian and many other projects will be sorely missed."
Mcintyre said Lenny had much newer versions of all the major packages: GNOME, KDE, OpenOffice, the kernel, etc. "We've added a lot more improvements into our own projects like the installer, and (my own favourite, because I did the work!) for the first time we will be shipping Blu-ray images of Debian. Of course, there are a *huge* number of new and updated packages for our users to play with and I can't hope to do them all justice here," he said.
Asked whether he would be running for DPL again after having experienced a few stressful months when the project went through some major discussions about free software,, McIntyre said he was still undecided.
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