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> Hi, Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo!
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> On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 10:13:51AM +0200, you wrote the following:
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> > AS>> (Geez. I hope Debian will get their act together and release a
> > AS>> distribution with a 2.2 kernel already for heavens sake. Of course 2=
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> > AS>> will be released immediately thereafter.)
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> > Are you serious? Debian still has 2.0? Now that's 2.3 is in feature
> > freeze and 2.4 is on the horizon? I know, proper testing and all that, but
> > shouldn't a year be enough? Not to start yet another religiuos war here,
> > but I'm rather surprised...
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> Any sane Debian user uses 2.2, but the latest release of Debian is
> 2.1, and it's based on the 2.0 kernel, yes, yes. :-( And that's not
> because of proper testing, but because Debian hasn't issued a release
> in 9 months, and that release was frozen for many months too. There's
> just one thing that sucks in Debian, and that's the release
> management. I don't blame them, it's very hard to release a
> distribution with more than 4,500 packages. (Red Hat 6.1, for
> comparison, has 720 packages.) There are proposals now to change the
> whole process (e.g. use package pools); I hope one of them gets
> through because the current approach is evidently not nearly scalable
> enough to where Debian wants to go.
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1) Debian also has what it calls unstable, which in my view is more appropriately
described as "current" then "unstable". I believe that many Debian users that use
Linux on a regular basis, have a reasonable network connection and prefer Debian use
this so called unstable tree. There are also quite expensive CDs of it (around $35
without shipping), so if one can not go without it he has an alternative.
2) I also believe that the stable, or the current Debian release is being used mostly
by new comers and those who do not have good network connection. There for, these
people might need a CD and will not be able to have a reasonable all purpose Debian
system without it. My point is that I am not sure if these people really like having a
new CD every 3 months or so. With such a relatively short time between releases one
might wait for his CD to be sent from abroad while the debian-user mailing list as
well as the package maintainers will be more and more concerned about the next
release. Also, the testing period will be shorter which might not be so good idea.
Another thing is that I am not sure if new comers or people that are not using Linux
constantly need such a frequent updates. Are not these people better have their time
to get used to Linux before starting to rush after the last version?
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