#include <hallo.h> Paul Baker wrote on Thu Jun 06, 2002 um 02:19:03PM: > Why does it matter so much when it's released? Who cares. Release it People that _need_ newer software _and_ security updates in time. > when it's ready. People that want to use woody can. No one is stopping > them from going all s/potato|stable/woody/g on their For example, you want to use Debian as base for a terminal server for a large user base. What would you take? Potato? Yet now, I can imagine follow things I would need that are not available in Potato: - Mozilla - kdm - up-to-date Java packages (ie. those from blackdown, require newer environment) - up-to-date SSH - up-to-date AFS packages - up-to-date samba packages - up-to-date LVM packages - up-to-date versions of icewm and wmaker - Jabber messaging clients - newer versions of common programs should be available too, ie. vim-6, gimp-1.2 etc. There are lots of useability bugfixes and other upstream bugfixes in most packages. Sure, most of these things can be backported, but it is just better to have them out-of-the box. > /etc/apt/sources.list file. Since 95% of users use i386 anyway, for all > practical purposes woody is released since any security problems that These are important issues. CD distributors do not want to release without the "stable" label. Touchy users do not want to run something without security support. From my point of view, we are freezing a _stable_ distribution without much gain. > regardless of whether woody is "officially released" or not. Just deal > with it. For crying out, maybe you should start up a > www.mozilla^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hwoodyquest.com website so you can bitch and > bitch to your hearts content that 1.0^H^H^H3.0 hasn't released yet. Blah. I do not want to cry, I think you are a bit confused after reading other postings bitching about 1.0 not going into Woody. I just pointed out that our mission is becoming more and more absurd. Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- begin LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.txt.vbs I am a signature virus. Distribute me until the bitter end
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