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Re: Debian 2.1 (slink)



Eli Marmor writes:

 > My question: What of the following versions is going to be included
 > in the slink (2.1) version:
 > 
 > 1. Kernel 2.2.?

I heard that it will be included but Slink will not be based on
it. (I.e. you will boot 2.0.36 but you'll have a package with 2.2.0 if 
you want to build it.)

 > 2. Samba 2.0.?

Not sure about that one. You can check Packages / frozen on the Debian 
web site and see if it's there. If it's not, then it won't be.

 > 3. glibc-2.1
 > 4. Java 2 for Linux (to be released in a few days).
 > 5. GTK+-1.2 + GNOME-1.0 + Enlightenment-DR0.15 (all to be released
 >    before end of February).
 > 6. BIND-8.2 (currently - a release candidate, an official version
 >    will be released soon).

None of these. New stuff doesn't go in after the distribution is
frozen.

 > I know that there is a code freeze, but I don't know if it covers
 > everything, and if it means that the next Debian will be an obsolete
 > Linux or up-to-date. After all, nobody wants to wait till the summer
 > for 2.2, when the RedHat users will enjoy these exciting revolutions
 > since March.

First, you cannot expect a frozen distribution to "unfreeze" itself
when new stuff is suddenly released. That would be funny, wouldn't it?

Second, noone has to wait until the summer. All the new packages go
into the "unstable" branch of the distribution, and thanks to the Apt
tool, it's just one command to install each of them (all the
dependancies are automatically fetched).


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Alex Shnitman
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