Re: Debian to be too late released

1999-09-20 Thread rir
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, andreas palsson wrote: > There are two reasons, NFS and RAID. > NFS under Linux 2.2 is painfully slow, and the improved driver will not > show up until 2.4. Are there many interface changes brewing up in the changes between 2.2 to 2.4? I'd call the changes between 2.0 and

Re: Debian to be too late released

1999-09-19 Thread Sam Vilain
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 "Martin Waller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes - I'm trying to persuade some people here at my work place to > switch to Debian from RedHat as they 'discover' linux, but they're > put off by the lack of a stable 2.2.x debian release, especially as

Re: Debian to be too late released

1999-09-16 Thread andreas palsson
Stephan Hachinger wrote: > > Didn't think of any speacial reason, but only thought that an up-to-date > distribution is always something good (surely it also becomes more > attractive by this). > > > Kind Regards, > > Stephan Hachinger > There are two reasons, NFS and RAID. NFS under Linux

Re: Debian to be too late released

1999-09-16 Thread Martin Waller
Yes - I'm trying to persuade some people here at my work place to switch to Debian from RedHat as they 'discover' linux, but they're put off by the lack of a stable 2.2.x debian release, especially as they want to do some SMP work. OK - upgrade slink to 2.2.x, but then there's more faffing abou

Debian to be too late released

1999-09-16 Thread Stephan Hachinger
> > - Original Message - > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Monday, September 13, 1999 6:23 PM > Subject: Re: Debian to be too late released > On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, Stephan Hachinger wrote: > > > Surely I would appreciate a 2.4 [k

Re: Debian to be too late released

1999-09-13 Thread rir
On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, Stephan Hachinger wrote: > Surely I would appreciate a 2.4 [kernel] ready distribution. Why?

Re: Debian to be too late released

1999-09-12 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Surely I would appreciate a 2.4 ready distribution. Kind Regards, Stephan Hachinger - Original Message - From: andreas palsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian-User List Sent: Saturday, September 11, 1999 8:36 PM Subject: Debian to be too late released > Hello.. > My ques

Debian to be too late released

1999-09-11 Thread andreas palsson
Hello.. I saw on the Kernel Mailing List that there's a feature freeze now, and a possible kernel 2.4 by the end of the year. Nice news. My questions is, if Debian 2.2 is released before this date, will there be a kernel-and-depending-tools-update a few weeks after the relase of kernel 2.4? I am