Re: Theory

2002-01-07 Thread Lex Spoon
To try and respond briefly, don't forget organizations that are using Debian. For a lot of organizations, it's neither practical nor safe to do a nightly upgrade on your hundreds of computers. Also, don't forget that a lot of the reason "stable" is stable, is because it sits frozen for a while an

Re: Theory

2002-01-06 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 07:11:17PM +0100, Robert J?rdens wrote: > - What do statistics about the CD/FTP ratio say? Are CDs still so > important, that we need definite and long-lasting identical > images/distros? True: floating release is nothing for CDs. Having 5 > different versions of a pac

Re: Theory

2002-01-06 Thread Robert Jördens
Hello! On Sam, 05 Jan 2002, Robert Jördens produced 5,8K chars torturing the keyboard: > And: Did I reinvent the wheel? I guess, I did. It was: 30 Aug 2000 - 31 Aug 2000 (10 posts): Crazy idea: removing version numbers from debian But then: Lets bring it up again. My idea is much more far