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Re: Debin CD's Available
On Thu, 27 Feb 1997, Jonathan Ben-Avraham wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Feb 1997, Vadim Vygonets wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, Jonathan Ben-Avraham wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > > The 50 Debian 1.2 CD's have arrived.
> >
> > Cool. But Debian 1.3 will be ready in less than a month. BTW, not
> > long ago in Kol Ze'ev I saw a "Winter '97" CD with Debian 1.1 on it.
> You miss the point. Debian 1.3 will be out in a month, like 1.2 was
> out in a "month". We saw how long that month was.
I, as a debian developer, know that 1.3 was said to be out on a week
or two, but it will be on the CDs in about a month including all the
delays. 1.2 had its problems, such as, unstable new XFree86.
> CD's will be printed a "month" after that "month". The question is,
> do you really want to wait another "month"? Especially considering
> that 1.4 will follow soon after, and then 1.5, 2.0, 9.0, 35.6 etc,
> or do you want a CD *today*?
I'd say that 1.2 is too old to install, and all *my* packages are from
the unstable directory tree (I've just bought a new computer and
installed it having direct (well, via Ethernet;) access to the Net.
> The fact that Kol Ze'ev still has 1.1 doesn't mean much.
But you didn't get the point -- the CD was labeled `Winter 97'!
> 1.1 is a fine buy for most users. There's not that many of us who
> really NEED the latest version, although many people on this list
> would feel deprived or worse without it.
I'm sorry, but 1.1 is already almost 9 months old. Linux is developed
faster than Windozes.
> I am still selling Caldera Network Desktop (based in Red Hat 3.03).
Which was about a year ago, right? I wouldn't buy it (even if I were
considering buying Caldera).
Vadik.
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Vadim Vygonets vadik@cs.huji.ac.il Sysadmin? Me?! Naah...
I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a binary tree.
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