Sarge (Debian)

For other uses, see Sarge (Debian) (disambiguation).

Sarge is a codename for the Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 distribution. It was named after Sarge character from Toy Story animation film.

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.

Main 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
• OpenOffice.org 1.1.3

Hardware architectures

At the moment of release, sarge was available for 11 architectures, the same ones woody (Debian 3.0 version) was available for:

• Alpha
• ARM
• HP PA-RISC
• Intel x86
• Intel IA-64
• Motorola 680x0
• MIPS
• MIPS (DEC)
• PowerPC
• IBM S/390
• SPARC

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.

See also

• Woody - previous stable version (3.0)
• Sid - always unstable version
• Etch - current testing version

External links

• Debian “sarge” Release Information
• Debian “sarge” Release Notes
• Press-release about the official release of Debian “sarge”
• Debian “sarge” installation information
• Debian “sarge” Installation Manual
• Definition from Debian wiki