Re: Wish: Unfreeze Woody and start anew
On Sunday, June 9, 2002, at 03:24 AM, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
Potato was released August 15, 2000. That means Woody is approaching two
years. (http://www.debian.org/News/2000/20000815)
Slink was released March 9, 1999. That means potato took 18 months.
(http://www.debian.org/News/1999/19990309)
Hamm was released July 24, 1998. That means slink took a little over 7
months. (http://www.debian.org/News/1998/19980724)
Debian 1.3 was released June 2, 1997. That means Hamm took almost 14
months. (http://www.debian.org/News/1997/19970602)
Before this, the News section does not tell.
Woody will be the longest Debian release cycle to date. Hopefully for
ever.
If you ask me, that is a testament to just how good of a release Potato
was that we were able to wait almost 2 years before releasing a major
revision. Makes me proud to be a Debian user, and relieves me as a
System Administrator that I don't have to go through major software
upgrade pains every 6 months in order to make sure my system is
up-to-date with security fixes. A new release every 2 years is plenty
quick if you ask me. When you are maintaining a cluster of systems, OS
upgrades are the things you most dread because there is a lot, I repeat
A LOT of testing that must be done before rolling things out. One of the
reasons I use Debian is that I don't have to expose the stability of my
systems to Microsoft like release cycles that most of the other Linux
distributions put their users through.
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