George Bonser wrote: > > On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Tim Webster wrote: > > > I have continued to use debian despite the fact that it has grown extremely > > out date. > > However failing to release a mini potato at this time, has forced me to drop > > debian. > > Huh? I have not used stable Debian in a production system in a long time. > The closest I have are some slink installs with some of the newer apps and > libs needed to do what it does. On these systems I did not completely > upgrade to potato ... just upgraded what needed to be upgraded to get the > verison of tools I needed.
I've argued with numerous people over this (I argue in favour of Debian). However... The problem is not that Debian itself is out of date. The problem is that you can't get an upgraded Debian on CD. Not everyone wants to download hundreds of megabytes over their 33.6kbps connection to upgrade their systems to the latest stuff. It seems that Debian's greatest strength (apt, IMO) is also its greatest weakness. I know quite a few people who would drop RedHat and move to Debian if it weren't for the upgrade procedure. They don't want to spend hours downloading, they would rather buy the latest RH for a few bucks and select the 'upgrade' option in the install program. Matthew
