Debian Lenny, coming Real Soon Now!
With the release of 'Lenny' - the latest stable branch of Debian GNU/Linux - on Saturday (yes, that's Valentine's day - don't forget!), Tom Callway speaks to the head of the Debian project, Steve McIntyre.
Why is the imminent release of Lenny a good thing for the Debian community?
It's the focus of lots of the work we've been doing for the last two years or so, with many new and updated versions of everybody's favourite packages. We've translated more of our packages into more languages, and (as ever!) there are more packages available. That means we can cover more people's needs, from home laptop or desktop system through to universities running massive scientific clusters and businesses depending on a very solid platform for their servers.
Many members of our community are happy to run from our testing and unstable branches, but the stable releases are very important to the rest where they trust us to just make things work and keep them working.
Why should enterprises using Debian be excited about the release of Lenny? What are the benefits of upgrading from Etch?
Enterprises will benefit most from the updates in key packages that affect them. Obviously, new kernels and drivers will add support for newer systems than we could support in Etch. New versions of office software and web browsers will give bonuses on the desktop. There are a whole host of updates for servers too, for example in virtualisation and database packages.
I can't do the whole thing justice in just a couple of paragraphs here! For a more complete list of the updates, we have a big summary in the Debian wiki
Why is the release of Lenny a good thing for downstream Linux distros like Ubuntu?
Well, that depends on how each of those distros work. There is quite a split here: many of them take packages from our unstable repository already, so won't necessarily be *directly* affected by Lenny. However, once we've made the release we will be free to do larger, more disruptive changes in unstable that they will benefit from. Of course, there are lots of other distros who like to build on top of our stable releases and just make their own minor changes. For these folks, they all suddenly get major upgrades in the hardware support and applications that they're using for the base. I would hope that all the derived distros will be happy here, but I can't guarantee that!
How do you think that the Lenny release process has improved from the one used by Etch?
That's a little more difficult to answer, I'll be honest. The release process for Etch was really quite successful for us, so we've kept to something quite similar for Lenny. There have been some detail tweaks in terms of how we tracked non-mandatory release goals: changes that we hoped to include in Lenny if we could make them happen, but that would not be grounds for delaying the release. Otherwise, there was not much to talk about really. We're still discussing ways of improving things, but those discussions are probably never going to end...
What's coming up at the next Debconf in Extremadura?
We're expecting to get about 400 Debian people to Spain this July 2009. I don't have all the answers yet on what people are going to be working on and talking about this year, as there are still several months to go. But we can expect the typical mix of deep technical discussions about various aspects of Debian alongside a celebration of Free Software as we develop it. It's the best place for us to get together and get to know each other, while sharing our ideas about how to improve our work in the future. Debian may be one of the biggest, most widespread distributed software development organisation in the world, but in terms of agreeing designs and making rapid progress on implementing them sometimes you just can't beat face-to-face meetings. Sharing the beer as well as the Free Software helps a lot, too.
We're also still looking for sponsors to help us cover the costs of the conference this year, so I'd be very grateful if interested people reading this could contact me to talk about that!
What other things is the Debian community going to focus on in 2009?
We still have some project-wide discussions to return to, on the questions of non-free code and how we should recognise and motivate our various contributors better. Both of these came up in the months before Lenny, but were not totally resolved due to the timing. I'm hoping that we can work those issues out to everybody's satisfaction, but I know that we're going to see a lot of debate before we get there.
Also, we have the next Project Leader elections coming soon, which means my existing job is under threat! :-) You'll hear more about that when the election process starts up next month, I'm sure!
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