> updates I want to quickly catch up on but my searching has been fruitless. > Why are old distribs (hamm and slink for instance), not kept at any of the > mirrors? just a common sense - why keep them on mirrors?! they're outdated, that's what we have museums for. And AFAIK slink hamm and bo are available on main debian site, with some space restrictions - like bo available only as source packages or sth.
> Also, why is there no mention of slink at the debian homepage? What is the > world coming to? As you probably know security team is phasing out it's support for slink. not yet but soon. ( have you read Debian Weekly News and debian-security-announce? ) regards, Eyck