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Re: Debian 2.1 (slink) released (fwd)
ok, the release announcement DID confuse me too...
Today, Chris Waters blurbed:
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 13:00:07 -0800
From: Chris Waters <xtifr@dsp.net>
To: Jonathan Jefferies <jonathanj@allant.com>
Cc: svlug@svlug.svlug.org
Subject: Re: Debian 2.1 (slink) released
Ok, first of all, the release of slink has been delayed for one week.
This was decided *just* after the announcement that it was released,
which is why I was confused.
Jonathan Jefferies wrote:
> Been meaning to ask but what's the diff between
> slink and hamm??
The biggest enhancement is the formal addition of apt (A Package Tool).
Command-line only in this release, but apt can also be used as a
"method" within dselect. Apt is intelligent, and solves the old problem
where you sometimes had to run the configure step of the install
multiple times. Next biggest enhancement is probably the fact that
slink doesn't fit on a single CD, so the multi-CD access tools have been
enhanced. You can set up apt so that it will install from the CD(s)
unless there is an updated package at the ftp sites, in which case it
will install from there.
Aside from that, a lot of upgrades, a lot of new packages, the usual
sort of thing. Oh, and the X packages have been reorganized (and
greatly improved IMO). It's probably important to check what changed
here when you upgrade. The new packaging is finer grained, with xterm
and xdm and twm and the like split out into separate, optional,
packages. As always, reading the READMEs will make your Debian
experience much more enjoyable. :-)
cheers
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