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Sarge is a codename for the Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 distribution.

On June 6th 2005, sarge went from testing to stable. It claims to have an easier-to-follow installation procedure, with integrated hardware detection and X configuration. Post configuration has also been made easy, through integration of debconf tool in to most of the existing packages.

Packages in the distribution include:

Linux kernel 2.4.27 and 2.6.8
KDE 3.3
GNOME Desktop Environment 2.8
XFree86 4.3.0
Apache 1.3.33 and 2.0.54
Perl 5.8.4
Python 2.3.5 and 2.4.1
MySQL 4.0.24 and 4.1.11a
GNU Compiler Collection 3.3.5
Mozilla 1.7.8
Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2
Mozilla Firefox 1.0.4
GIMP 2.2.6

At the moment of release, sarge was available for 11 architectures:

Three days after the major release, on June 6th 2005, the port of sarge to 12-th AMD64 architecture was also declared stable, and this was the first time Debian GNU/Linux was ported to AMD64.

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+Three days after the major release, on [[June 6th]] [[2005]], the port of sarge to 12-th [[AMD64]] architecture was also [http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/06/msg00005.html declared] stable, and this was the first time Debian GNU/Linux was ported to AMD64.
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