Owen Heisler wrote:
This doesn't really answer my question; maybe you misunderstood (didn't understand my babbling). I just want to know how long it will be (date/release/revision) until Debian stable will work with the SATA in my system. As you can see above, the testing-amd64-netinst image worked for me. I am guessing that, since this image is "Etch", that it will be after Etch is released that "Debian stable" will work for me (because it will be Etch, then). If that is true, is there any answer to when Etch will be released? Is it "any time now", as I have seen mentioned here or, like I said before, 2-3 years after the previous release (after June 2007)? Thanks.
Debian Etch is scheduled for release on or about the first week of December, 2006, according to the most recent schedule I've seen. The kernel and toolchain freeze is supposed to go into effect at the end of July; the base freeze in August, and the general freeze in mid-October.
It's anyone's guess whether it will all play out this way, but the developers are committed to doing everything possible to make it happen, after the disastrous delay releasing Sarge. See Ian Murdock's blog post of May 08:
http://ianmurdock.com/?p=329 -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA "No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream." --S. Jackson