After 21 months of development Debian has released version 4.0 codenamed Etch to the public on April, 8th 2007. In Debian time 21 months is downright snippy, which is a good thing. Trust me on that. Their last (in)famous release Debian 3.1 (Sarge) took a near vista-esque length of time for release (3+ years), so here’s hoping the colorful Debian gang can keep up to their more reasonable year and a half release cycle.