On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 10:46:00AM +0000, teddi...@tmo.blackberry.net wrote: > > The BIG Complaint: because Debian supports Sooooo many hardware platforms > their release cycles are too slow. >
Just a minor correction. The number of hardware platforms supported has a minor impact on the length of Debian's release cycle. If you look back, Debian releases have been widely seperated even when it was just x86 only. The much larger reason seems to be the number of packages and the relatively few Debian developers who work on Debian as their full time job. Pat -- Patrick Ouellette p...@flying-gecko.net ne4po (at) arrl (dot) net Amateur Radio: NE4PO What kind of change have you been in the world today? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110301123226.ga16...@flying-gecko.net
