Bruce Linux Release
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The Summer, 2006 release is from Debian "Etch." Bruce was frozen on Monday, June 5th, 2006.
The last freeze was codenamed "Squirt" and was frozen on Friday, August 5th, 2005. It was the Debian "Sarge" release, with some minor, frozen modifications.
The exact number of packages installed on our desktop machines varies over time, but at the time of this upgrade Squirt had 1958 and Bruce had 2159. 275 packages were removed (though some were replaced by new packages with different names) and 476 new packages were added, for a net increase of 201 packages.
The tstaff has compiled a complete inventory of the 2220 packages added, removed or upgraded in the transition from Squirt to Bruce:
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Squirt to Bruce Upgrade Highlights
Here are some of the more notable changes that accompany this upgrade:- abiword
- Abiword moves from 2.2.7 to 2.4.4, the most recent stable release. Visit http://www.abisource.com/ for more information.
- bash Bash gets a major upgrade from 2.05 to 3.1 (see the announcement);
- cairo The cairo 2D graphics library is new with this upgrade.
- firefox The firefox web browser was 1.0.4, is now 1.5.0 (see the 1.5 announcement).
- g++ The gnu compiler suite has several versions installed at once, but the one you get by default changes with this upgrade from 3.3.5 to 4.0.3. Watch out C++ developers - 4.1 is coming - test your code before it becomes the default! (4.1 is more strict).
- galeon The galeon web browser see's a major revision, from 1.3.20 to 2.0.1.
- gnome The entire Gnome desktop bumps up from 2.8.0 to 2.12.0 (see the release notes).
- gnumeric The gnumeric spreadsheet moves from 1.4.3 to 1.6.3 (see the announcement).
- kde The KDE desktop moves up a minor rev: 3.3.2 to 3.5.2 (see the announcement).
- koffice The KDE office suite gets a minor rev, too, from 1.3.5 to 1.4.2 (see the announcement). Look for 1.5 in the fall.
- openoffice OpenOffice bumps from 1.1.3 to 2.0.1, a big release. (see the release notes).
- qt 4 Qt 4.1.2 is now installed.
- thunderbird Mozilla's mail reader moves from 1.0.4 to 1.5.0 (see the release notes).
- valgrind The valgrind debugging and profiling tools see a major upgrade, from 2.4.0 to 3.1.1. (see the release notes).
- xmh The xmh mail reader is gone with this upgrade. Use exmh.
Kernel Upgrade
All 2.6.10 kernels will be upgraded to 2.6.15.| Page Owner: John Bazik | Last Modified: Tue Jun 5 17:05:22 2007 |