Debian gets a makeover

Holy crap.  Have you heard the news?  Debian have finally released something new.

“If all goes according to plan, Debian should release both an update to Debian Sarge (3.1r6, henceforth to be oldstable) and a new stable release (Debian 4.0, which was codenamed Etch) — and announce the results of the election for Debian Project Leader — all within 12 hours. Sarge was updated late on April 7th UTC, Sam Hocevar was announced as DPL at about 00:30 UTC, and preparations for the release of Debian Etch are ongoing and look good for later on the 8th.”

Things seem to be happening very quickly over at debian.org.  What has got a fire up their ass I wonder?  As someone over in Slashdot quoted:

“Two releases in one day! This is like a turtle suddenly accelerating to lightspeed.”