A fund-raising experiment, Dunc-Tank, was created to solve the release cycle problem and release managers were paid to work full-time;[60] in response, unpaid developers slowed down their work and the release was delayed.[61]
Debian 4.0 (Etch) was released in April 2007, featuring the x86-64 port and a graphical installer.[21]
Debian 5.0 (Lenny) was released in February 2009, supporting Marvell's Orion platform and netbooks such as the Asus Eee PC.[62] The release was dedicated to Thiemo Seufer, a developer who died in a car crash.[63]