On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 08:43:09PM +0100, John Watson wrote: > Some fantastic ideas > > > First of all I would like to say how great Debian is as a operating system > and a linux distro. I have tried many distribution but always come back to > Debian. What I find wrong with these so called distros is that they always > artificially alter components, components deleted/missing and loads of > useless bells and whistles that never work..... I have some ideas which may > or may not improve the project or least something to discuss about...... > > > 1) I just find that releases are being delayed due to the obsession with > security.
First, that's not actually true. While security surely is one concern, it certainly isn't the only one under consideration when releasing. Second, I don't think security is something we should be compromising on. > If Microsoft was Debian then Microsoft would only be releasing > Windows XP now, Well, they aren't. And just in case you didn't notice, it took Debian less time to release etch than it took Microsoft to release Vista; and on top of that, they had to throw out a bunch of planned features in order to make that happen, which was not the case for us. I really don't see where your statement is coming from. [...] > I would suggest having two releases of Debian, one "really stable" which > could be released every 2 years, another one "stable" released every 6 > months by taking a freeze of the current "testing" distro and spending a > month (no more) fixing any major bugs. I personally believe the "testing" > version is as stable as many of the other distros in the market. I normally > use the testing version however when it comes to a release of the stable > version, updates on testing are few with a increase temptation to switch to > a different distro. Is there a problem with starting to use testing, say, six months to a year after the release? If so, what? > 2)One real issue with Debian is a lack of admin tools, (such as yast is for > SuSE). Considering starting a project to develop a range of gui based admin > tools for Debian. > > What are folks view on this and is there any other similar projects? I don't think there is anyone working on that currently, but there's nothing wrong with it. Creating an interface that would give one a "control panel" type of view, allowing to configure packages using debconf, could surely be a good idea. [... strange unintelligible question about money snipped ...] -- <Lo-lan-do> Home is where you have to wash the dishes. -- #debian-devel, Freenode, 2004-09-22 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
