I appreciate the fine quality of the debian distribution and the work that goes into it. Thanks very much! It is my preferred linux distribution. However, I have three systems that are at slink level, and have been waiting for a long time for a 2.2.* kernel, gnome (available outside official debian), etc. Some earlier discussions about the true instability of the potato release have prevented me from starting the upgrade path yet. Perhaps I am getting old and lazy?
Hmm. How about this for a practical suggestion: After Potato, *please* limit the scope of the feature changes that will take place before a new release. A 3-4 month cycle seems more appropriate to this kind of development. Make your goals more modest! Debian is already the best linux distro I have seen, with the only drawback that is is *many* months behind the newest features (if you stick with a "stable" version - if anyone on the newsgroup whines that they have hosed their system via an "unstable" upgrade attempt, they are admonished "what do you expect?" ). Thanks for your work and your listening time. nathan Matthew Dalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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. -- 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]
