Adam Bower wrote: [...]
and knowing that there will be a new release in under 6 months. Not to say that Debian isn't good, but the waiting nearly 3 years for a new stable release is far too long. What also gets me is that I'm
I agree. It is possible for users to influence debian and to help accelerate this. Users who don't mind playing with unstable or can help with testing testing and getting the number of release-critical bugs down are most welcome. http://www.debian.org/devel/join/
downloading packges ahead of the Sarge release to upgrade a Debian box here, and it appears that Sarge is shipping with things like Gnome 2.8, kernel 2.6.8, Firefox 1.0.1, Evolution 2.0 despite Ubuntu having already shipped with Gnome 2.10 kernel 2.6.10, Firefox 1.0.2, Evolution 2.2 and x.org instead of xfree86.
Does anyone know why that hasn't made its way back to debian? Freeze scheduling or what?