Re: [TCLUG:19211] debian install

[Ben Lutgens <ben@sistina.com>]

On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 09:08:44AM -0500, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
>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.
{blutgens@athena}-{~/.desktop} $ ls -l /lib/libc-*

-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       888596 May  1 13:26 /lib/libc-2.1.3.so

hmmm. Like I said. Most people run the unstable branch. Stable is for
production boxes that don't need all the newest stuff (in most cases)

Nor is Debian targeted at "Newbies" or they'd have a gtk install like some
other dists. It's aimed at power users who want more from thier system.

At least that my interpretation of it.
>
>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
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>
>> 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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