Thanks for the response.
I'm not sure about the actual reasons for potato's delays, really just guessing, plus noting discussion of at least a few large-scale package reorgs in the last six months, and people trying to track down the bunch of bugs that came with the changes :) Potato is the first time I haven't jumped the gun and gone to unstable months before release. Old an lazy? take care nathan Seth R Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am not sure that potato got pushed back due to trying to do too much -- I > think it got pushed back because the boot floppies aren't ready. From slink > to potato involves moving to kernel 2.2 (2.4 will be out soon, and potato > will look antiquated once again..) and incremental upgrades to the little > bits. > > I am not sure it was trying to do too much; 2.2 needed to happen, and the > bootfloppies just don' work on all systems. I would love to help the > bootfloppies group, but I just don't have the time amidst my programming > labs.. hehe. :) > > I am not sure if I agree with you or disagree with you. I moved to potato > from slink, and felt very good about it. The closest my system came to being > unstable was a few days when netscape really sucked. Since then, and I have > kept up-to-date usually every day or two, my system has been fairly stable. > I would consider running unstable on a production server; it seems that > nice. :) > > Have fun :) > > On Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 06:21:08PM -0500, Nathan O. Siemers wrote: > > > > Chris Waters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Newest features and stablity are usually incompatible goals. Also, > > > most businesses find upgrades both expensive and time-consuming. A > > > release a year is FAR TOO OFTEN from one perspective, and nowhere near > > > often enough from another. Where to find middle ground? > > > > > > For everyone whining that Debian doesn't release often enough, there > > > are three people switching their businesses to Debian because it's > > > solid and reliable and stable and doesn't change all the time, unlike > > > most other distros. I think we're doing ok. > > > > I agree in principle with some of the above. Debian systems > > are stable as we all know. However, releasing more frequent > > updates with more modest agendas does not force any system > > administrator to upgrade more often - it only adds flexibility > > for them to add new features when necessary. Also, the less > > you change at once in the overall debian architecture > > (changing package structures, package methodology, etc), the > > easier debugging the organic whole will be. > > > > My original point was that potato has gotten delayed beyond > > it's (my?) anticipated release because developers tried to do > > *too much* in a single release. It was a call to modesty, not > > a call from a feature hog. My job involves running a > > computational infrastructure group within a fortune 50 > > company. We have around 60 linux systems here, including two > > compute farms. Where is my middle ground? I cannot be on the > > bleeding edge, but slink is looking *very* old at the moment. > > Our group is research oriented, so we are less conservative > > than many, but I do represent enterprise computing to some > > extent :) > > > > Someday these at work machines will be running debian > > gnu/linux, like my 3 systems at home. > > > > nathan > > > > > > > > > > If you really need the latest and greatest, use potato now; we all do. > > > (Every Debian developer is pretty much forced to run unstable, which > > > ensures a certain level of stability.) > > > > > > > > -- > > N a t h a n O . S i e m e r s > > Bioinformatics > > Division of Applied Genomics > > Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute > > Hopewell Building 3B, P.O. Box 5400, Princeton, NJ 08543-5400 > > 609 818-6568 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ > Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help > Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into > your ~/.signature to help me spread! > -- N a t h a n O . S i e m e r s Bioinformatics Division of Applied Genomics Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute Hopewell Building 3B, P.O. Box 5400, Princeton, NJ 08543-5400 609 818-6568 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
