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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.

--
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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