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?
Cheers, Richard
On 2003-12-23 10:17:37 +0000 Richard Lewis richard.lewis@uea.ac.uk wrote:
Whats going on at the Debian project?
Work as normal, with a little systems recovery still going on. I'm not sure what you're asking. If you meant to ask why Sarge isn't yet out, see http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2003/debian-devel-announce-200... for some reasons. Basically, too much buggy software and not enough fixing bugs. Can you help? http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ is a good place to start. Send in patches.
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.
Remember the salt when reading as i don't really have a clue, - Dennis Dryden
On 2003-12-23 17:23:47 +0000 Dennis Dryden ddryden@ntlworld.com wrote:
Debian seems to be trying to support too many architectures, i think this is one of its biggest downfalls.
I think only x86 users really think this. Maybe there is some argument for having different release methods, but Debian's broad support wins it many friends. I hear about certain projects who look to Debian to find portability bugs in their code.
Ok so sarge is going to be late and contain old software when it becomes stable, whats new?
Is it frozen yet? Why should it be older at release than any usual?
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.
It's harder to quantify the support it has, as debian's own funds are scattered and only the tip of the iceberg. It's also hard to be sure about the standards: Debian is probably one of the most open about them, though.
Remember the salt when reading as i don't really have a clue,
Let's just take that yellow thing by the road, eh?
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