On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Matthew Dalton wrote: > 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 The problem is not that Debian itself is out of date.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.
The biggest Thing I had ever to download were ~60MB Matth
