The Linux Ninja

The Debian project announced a new 24 month release cycle for distribution releases a few days ago.  Even greater news this will be going into effect this fall with a new release expected next Spring:

The Debian project has decided to adopt a new policy of time-based development freezes for future releases, on a two-year cycle. Freezes will from now on happen in the December of every odd year, which means that releases will from now on happen sometime in the first half of every even year. To that effect the next freeze will happen in December 2009, with a release expected in spring 2010. The project chose December as a suitable freeze date since spring releases proved successful for the releases of Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (codenamed Etch) and Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (Lenny).

This is great news for me. I have long been a fan of Debian on my servers but have found the slower release cycle much more difficult to deal with on my desktop since the packages become out of date fairly fast, even in their testing branch.