On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 07:47:16PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > For the first time, Debian comes with the KDE desktop environment. The > GNOME desktop environment is upgraded to version 1.4, and X itself is > upgraded to the much improved XFree86 4.1. With the addition of several > full featured free graphical web browsers in the form of mozilla, galeon, full-featured, free graphical web browsers > This version of Debian supports the 2.2 and 2.4 releases of the Linux > kernel. Along with better support for a greater variety of new hardware > (such as USB) and significant improvements in usability and stability, the > 2.4 kernel provides support for the ext3 and reiserfs journaling filesystems. foldoc says journalling is spelled with two 'l's. (Obviously so does my brain, which is why I checked.) > apt pinning, to ease partial upgrades to our testing branch. Aptitude is > a replacement for the venerable dselect program and will make it easier to > select packages. Four thousand new software packages are added to the > distribution in Debian GNU/Linux 3.0. I'm wary of the wording "aptitude [...] will make it easier to select packages." How do you respond then to long-time dselect users who try aptitude and /don't/ find it easier? :) Perhaps: Aptitude is a replacement for the venerable dselect program that is intended to make it easier to select packages. > Debian 3.0 is the culmination of years of work by many thousands of > developers, not only from the Debian project but throughout the free > software community, and by many commercial enterprises. While some have > fallen along the way, Debian has weathered recent troubles well, thanks to > its volunteer base, its dedication to the Debian Social Contract, and its > commitment to provide the best operating system possible. This is another > important step in that direction. Shouldn't that be "Free Software community"? "while some..." - this seems vague to me. Some what? Some of our developers? Some commercial enterprises that disappeared in the dotcom bust? Some stocks? :) HTH, Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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