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Potato is the code name for a former [:DebianStable:Stable] Debian distribution. It was released on August 15th 2000 as Debian GNU/Linux 2.2, It was superseded by Debian/[:DebianWoody:Woody] on 19 Jul 2002.
Debian/Potato Release Information : [http://www.debian.org/releases/potato/] |
Debian/Potato Life cycle
16 Jan 2000 : Announcement of Upcoming Release ([http://www.debian.org/News/2000/20000116 press release]).
15 Aug 2000 : Initial released : 2.2r0 ([http://www.debian.org/News/2000/20000815 press release]).
14 Nov 2000 : Updated (2.2r1) ([http://www.debian.org/News/2000/20001114 press release]).
05 Dec 2000 : Updated (2.2r2) ([http://www.debian.org/News/2000/20001205 press release]).
17 Apr 2001 : Updated (2.2r3) ([http://people.debian.org/~joey/2.2r3/ preparation], [http://www.debian.org/News/2001/20010417 press release]).
05 Nov 2001 : Updated (2.2r4) ([http://people.debian.org/~joey/2.2r4/ preparation], [http://www.debian.org/News/2001/20011105 press release]).
10 Jan 2002 : Updated (2.2r5) ([http://people.debian.org/~joey/2.2r5/ preparation], [http://www.debian.org/News/2002/20020110 press release]).
03 Apr 2002 : Updated (2.2r6) ([http://people.debian.org/~joey/2.2r6/ preparation], [http://www.debian.org/News/2002/20020403 press release]).
13 Jul 2002 : Updated (2.2r7) ([http://people.debian.org/~joey/2.2r7/ preparation], [http://www.debian.org/News/2002/20020713 press release]).
19 Jul 2002 : Debian/Potato becomes [:DebianOldStable:old-stable]. (i.e A new stable is released : [:DebianWoody:Woody]).
24 Apr 2002 : Announcement of the end of security Update ([http://lists.debian.org/debian-news/debian-news-2002/msg00017.html DWN]).
30 Jun 2003 : End of security updates (i.e End of life.). The distribution is [http://www.debian.org/distrib/archive moved to archive].
See Potato [:DebianReleases/PointReleases:point-releases] [http://archive.debian.org/dists/potato/ChangeLog ?ChangeLog] and [http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists/potato/non-US/ChangeLog non-US/ChangeLog].
Architectures
Potato had officially supported the following [:Architectures:architectures] : alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc, sparc. (see Potato's [http://www.debian.org/releases/potato/ release page]).
New Features
Packages & versions
- apt 0.3.19
- kernel : linux 2.2.19
- libc : libc6 2.1.3
- gcc : 2.95.2
- X-server : XFree86 3.3.6
links
- Download CD : search google for one of the iso file listed below [#ISOs]. if you don't find r7, try another dot-release (r6, r5, r4, r3, r2, r1, r0)
Package Repository : [http://archive.debian.org/dists/potato/]
- Installation :
FAQ
Many answers can be fount in the [http://www.debian.org/News/2000/20000116 2.2r0 press release] or in the Release Information.
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ISO Files
$wget -m -A MD5SUMS http://ftp.debian.cz/pub/mirror/debian-cd/2.2_rev7 $cd ftp.ticklers.org/cdimage.debian.org-cdimage/archive/3.1_r6a $grep -E '(businesscard|netinst|binary)\.iso' * -R | grep "MD5SUMS" #CD sha1sums d982f6485dc1b039789a78ad4548749d debian-22r7-i386-binary-1.iso ca3e0e4f124dfa8d12e8cd491402e68c debian-22r7-i386-binary-1_NONUS.iso acc48762d94a677fcd9f30d49ab8e6d1 debian-22r7-alpha-binary-1.iso 5cd9fe3a04e547121f28e3993cffbae2 debian-22r7-alpha-binary-1_NONUS.iso 401a78203975458dd20e93dbbb60851b debian-22r7-powerpc-binary-1.iso 3a1756eca42f30f12ce15667b80ef33a debian-22r7-powerpc-binary-1_NONUS.iso 387c22605764cfc1ce8bf34157ad5d66 debian-22r7-sparc-binary-1.iso 2c83855610df561bf302185fe9f94004 debian-22r7-sparc-binary-1_NONUS.iso
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