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Re: Just got my order from cheapbytes



Hi, Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo!

On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 10:13:51AM +0200, you wrote the following:

> 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 24
> AS>> will be released immediately thereafter.)
> 
> 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...

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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