About Etch
 

Just a feel questions about the next release...

Its possible to download etch already? Its using xorg or xfree ? Anyone have any link with the list of the packg this distro will use?

thanks!

AFAIK, etch is the new testing branch... i'm not sure there would be a new testing branch ready one day after sarge became stable... then again, i'm not a debian guy, so i'm not sure...

Etch is the new codename for the "testing" development branch now that Sarge has been released. Debian has "stable" releases and two development branches -- "testing" and "unstable". (There's also a repository for broken packages, "experimental".) You install the "stable" release and then you can upgrade it to "testing" or "unstable".

X.org is not yet in Debian. It will probably appear first in "experimental" for preliminary testing before it is moved to "unstable". After spending some time in "unstable", X.org will be moved to "testing".

damn it ! How the answers come fast
lol
:D

thanks!

The listing of packages is available here: Debian -- Packages

Since my original install was Sarge, can I just leave my sources.list set to 'testing,' and be automatically upgraded to etch?

Question arises particularly because I just did 'apt-get upgrade,' and I'm getting a 404 error on http://security.debian.org testing/updates/main (ditto for /contrib & /non-free)

I had the same problem just comment out the security updates and non-us. Hopefully whatever the problem is will be fixed soon. I read somewhere the non-us were being moved to main, but I don't know if only applied to Sarge.

I use the following with no problems.
# Testing Etch
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ testing main

# Testing Sources
deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
deb-src http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ testing main