David, Precisely the point I was trying to make.
Thank you, montefin David Karlin wrote: > > 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 > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- In Life Timing is everything; in Linux Permissions is everything. http://www.montefin.com/~montefin/ (up 24/7) http://finux.com:8080 (our Zope experiment...evenings & weekends) http://finux.com:8085 (our XML adventures...evenings & weekends)
