Actually, Michael has stated the small point I was trying to make, and better than I did in my original post.
As I said, "It's just a thought." montefin > 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 > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Brian May [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Monday, July 31, 2000 8:59 AM > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: Re: Why not Standard, Pre-Release, and Development > versions? > > > > > > >>>>> "montefin" == montefin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > montefin> Is there any requirement that Debian releases _must_ > be > > montefin> labeled Stable, Frozen and Unstable? > > > > montefin> IMO, those labels are misleading and/or unnecassrily > > montefin> pejorative. > > > > Not sure what the problem is... > > > > montefin> Certainly, today, Slink is the current Standard Debian > > > montefin> version. > > > > so, the following symlinks are currently used: > > > > stable --> slink > > frozen --> potato > > unstable --> woody > > > > montefin> Soon it will be displaced, as the Standard version, by > > > montefin> Potato, which hopefully will soon emerge from its > > montefin> Pre-Release lockdown. > > > > When potato is officially released, the sym-links will change: > > > > stable --> potato > > unstable --> woody > > > > If I have missed the point, somebody else can fill in the details > > I missed ;-). > > -- > > Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > -- > > 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)
