On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, joost witteveen wrote: > > On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, alex khalil wrote: > > > > > When will Debian 2.0 be available? > > > > "When it is ready" > > And, to give a little more feeling about when that may be: > We're converting all packages to libc6. I My guess is that we're > about half-way, with most of the difficult packages (libraries) > done. So, only on the libc6/5 basis, I'd say: probably another > 3 months. But by the time everything is libc6, there will probably > be other problems (Deity, maybe problems with bootdisks, etc), > and that may delay things more. > > But, the only true answer with free software project like this > one surely is "when it's ready", as "deadlines" are impossible > to keep.
Thanks Joost. Your answer helped me make a decision on upgrading a set of machines for a charity based on the current 1.3.x. Also, we will be sending a batch of Debian CD-ROMs to the Thirld World immediately rather than try to wait for 2.0 Thanks again alex -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
