We are mere hours away from the largest IRC party Debian has ever
thrown, as the release of 2.0 "hamm" will happen:
in Austrailia: at 10:00 AM ACT on Friday Jul 24
in Europe: at 0:00 midnight UTC on Friday Jul 24
in America: at 8:00 PM EDT on Thursday Jul 23
5:00 PM PDT
Debian's developers and users are already gathering on IRC channel
#debian, irc.debian.org. Everyone is invited for the Great Event,
which will begin 2 hours before and probably last well into the night
-- or afternoon as the case may be.
There's also a live countdown page at http://www.netgod.net/.
For new users, the install floppies will be on all of Debian's mirrors
at the moment of release. And since irc.debian.org is linked with the
Linux Internet Support Cooperative (http://www.linpeople.org/), there
will be experts on IRC to help with things like ppp, sound, and X
setup.
People with Debian releases older than this hamm can upgrade easily
after installing the next-generation package manager, APT, which was
just put on Freshmeat. (Its perhaps better known by its secret
codename, "deity".)
To join us, point your favorite IRC client at a server that sounds
close:
irc.us.debian.org irc.eu.debian.org
irc.au.openprojects.net irc.linux.org
The long wait is over. :-)
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