Sarge (Debian)
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:
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.