On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 04:53:58PM +0200, Michalowski Thierry wrote: > I think he simply suggest to call the distributions with less pejorative > names. > Many users are afraid of "frozen" or "unstable" or "radioactive" software, > so they may just lay way back in the Debian versioning because they are > afraid of the name, not because they _do_ want the bullet-proof stability of > the "stable" Debian version. > > This would lead to these links: > > standard --> slink > prerelease --> potato > development --> woody > > exactly replacing these: > > stable --> slink > frozen --> potato > unstable --> woody > > My .02 EUR > Thierry
A rose (or potato) by any other name, smells just as sweet. If someone is scared by the name "unstable" or "frozen", perhaps they *should* be running stable. My .02 (US) -- David Karlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Debian GNU/Linux
