The Debian Project has now decided that they will be following a two year release cycle:
The Debian project has decided to adopt a new policy of time-based development freezes for future releases, on a two-year cycle. Freezes will from now on happen in the December of every odd year, which means that releases will from now on happen sometime in the first half of every even year. To that effect the next freeze will happen in December 2009, with a release expected in spring 2010. The project chose December as a suitable freeze date since spring releases proved successful for the releases of Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (codenamed “Etch”) and Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (“Lenny”).
That’s really interesting, and as one member of the Linux Audio User’s list pointed out, kinda silly to have a release cycle that is longer than the average lifetime of most PCs today. I guess Debian has finally succumbed to the pressure put on by Ubuntu’s popularity and six month release cycle (which is a bit much, IMHO).
On a slightly related note, the Sidux project has a new release. Sidux is a flavor of Debian that follows Debian’s unstable branch, adds many fixes, and generally caters to the lunatic fringe. 
I downloaded the latest release and installed it last night, and so far I’ve been really impressed. Most impressive is the new look – very sleek and pretty, even for a lightweight window manager (XFCE). Kudos to the Sidux team for all of their hard work!
