On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 10:17, Richard Lewis wrote:
Hello List,
Whats going on at the Debian project?
Linux Format, in their January issue (p. 9), under the headline "Debian Woody reaches for the skies...", report that, "the 'stable' version of Debian Woody is nearing with the launch of a second release candidate", while Linux Magazine, in their January issue (p. 88), talking about the bugginess of the debian-installer, say that, "this would not have been a big problem, if the Release Manager, Anthony Towns, had not set December 1 as the release date for Debian GNU/Linux Sarge", and while packages.debian.org continues to be out of operation and the debian.org front page makes no mention of sarge going stable.
Any ideas?
Well sarge is still the current testing and debian-installer is going to be rolled out with sarge when it turns stable. This could take a while but it'll happen(some time in 2004 i hope). Debian seems to be trying to support too many architectures, i think this is one of its biggest downfalls. The new installer is working quite well on x86(or so im told) but there are problems with the other architectures.
"this would not have been a big problem, if the Release Manager, Anthony Towns, had not set December 1 as the release date for Debian GNU/Linux Sarge"
Ok so sarge is going to be late and contain old software when it becomes stable, whats new? I think the versions of the software are still quite old(Gnome 2.2 maybe and KDE 2.2 still?) but still allot better then woody's(Gnome 1.4, KDE 2.2). The only problem i can see with Debian is that its standards are higher then most other distro's and it does not have the support(in £$£$). I still think the distro is great.
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