Re: [TCLUG:19211] debian install

["Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@veldy.net>]

Why buy the CD at all?  Most "popular" linux users, won't be downloading and
installing a new kernel right away - and they certainly want to see what
they hype is about.  They won't get to with Debian 2.1.  The latest software
needs glibc-2.1.x (i.e. java2), Star Office, etc.

I am on your side - I like Debian, I just think that they shouldn't be quite
so anal about their release - or put more work into testing [ a little
faster ].  Maybe a BSD like release schedule would be better for them.
Release the 2.2 as 3.0 and let it be used as a general release and wide
spread testing and the little bug reports will come in nicely for the 3.1
Stable release (yes, I know this is controversial in the BSD world as well).
After all, they are developing a new branch and they haven't even released
the frozen one.

Tom Veldhouse
veldy@veldy.net

----- Original Message -----
From: Ben Lutgens <ben@sistina.com>
To: <tclug-list@mn-linux.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 8:48 AM
Subject: Re: [TCLUG:19211] debian install


> On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 08:18:04AM -0500, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
> >
> >Exactly - which is exactly why they should release it before they are
behind
> >a kernel version (in their release distro) yet again.
>
> Behind a kernel version? How hard is it to download a new kernel? The
kernel
> does not make the dist. You can get that anywhere. What makes a dist are
the
> packages that are available, how they're packaged and how stable they are.
>
>
>
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