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Sarge (Debian)

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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.

Some of the versions of packages in the distribution include:

  • KDE 3.3
  • GNOME desktop environment 2.8
  • XFree86 4.3.0
  • Apache 1.3.33
  • GNU Compiler Collection 3.3.5
  • Perl 5.8.4
  • Mozilla 1.7.8
  • Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2
  • Mozilla Firefox 1.0.4
  • MySQL 4.0.24
  • GIMP 2.2.6

See also

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