There's also a version of this up on the Debian website: <a href="http://www.debian.org/News/2010/20100806" rel="nofollow">http://www.debian.org/News/2010/20100806</a><p>One very interesting thing about this release is the introduction of Debian GNU/kFreeBSD. I've been running it in a VirtualBox, and while it has some bugs it's also a wonderful addition to Debian. They've just recently got the userspace ZFS tools working on a FreeBSD 8.1 kernel running a GNU userland and a GNU C library.<p>We're heading for a brave new world where the kernel is just another package, not some immutable part of the whole system.
The claim that "This is the first time a Linux distribution
has been extended to also allow use of a non-Linux kernel" is a little odd, given that Gentoo/FreeBSD has been around for several years: <a href="http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/bsd/fbsd/" rel="nofollow">http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/bsd/fbsd/</a><p>Admittedly, Gentoo's port uses the FreeBSD libc whereas Debian ported glibc, and the Gentoo port is not exactly ready for prime time, but claiming Debian did it first is a bit of a stretch.
Linux 2.6.32 will be quite outdated upon release, I hope they will make a squeeze 'n half like they did for Etch.<p>Also, I hope python 2.6 will be enough for the Squeeze lifetime, as python 2.7 is stable now. Python 2.5 on Lenny (while 2.6 was already released) was problematic in term of lacking features.
I've been using Squeeze in production systems for several months, as I needed a wide variety of bug fixes/features it provided over Lenny. It has been completely stable - glad to see Debian development moving forward.
Do these announcements belong here? I mean, those interested in learning about new releases of Debian, Ubuntu or some other software can just subscribe to dedicated mailing lists.