With all the talk of release critical bugs, I am wondering if anyone has tried just doing a base install, and checking how stable THAT is, without being TOO concerned about problems with X, and all the other packages. Does anyone know? The way I figure it, once the base install is fairly solid, it may make it easier to trace some of the other problems. Dave Bristel On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, Joseph Carter wrote: > Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 04:26:52 -0700 > From: Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org> > To: Patrick Kirk <pkirk@enterprise-hr.com> > Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: potato was Re: infomagic > Resent-Date: 24 Jul 1999 11:27:05 -0000 > Resent-From: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ; > > On Sat, Jul 24, 1999 at 11:02:30AM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: > > Debian is the last major distro on the 2.0.36 kernel. I like it because it > > loads, runs like its supposed to and its free as in free speech. > > > > Where is there some info on what potato is supposed to be? From the > > description of broken bits obviously its planned to be very different from > > slink but how? > > A number of things broke slightly. Of course, given the major transitions > we have happening here, no wonder things are as good as they currently are > iv you're running unstable. The the major transitions: > > glibc 2.0.7 --> glibc 2.1 > gcc 2.7.x --> egcs > kernel 2.0.36 --> kernel 2.2.x > perl 5.004 --> perl 5.004/5.005 > X 3.3.2.3 --> X 3.3.4 > > If the lot of those aren't good reason to have things break, I don't know > what is. > > -- > Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org> Debian GNU/Linux developer > GnuPG: 2048g/3F9C2A43 - 20F6 2261 F185 7A3E 79FC 44F9 8FF7 D7A3 DCF9 DAB3 > PGP 2.6: 2048R/50BDA0ED - E8 D6 84 81 E3 A8 BB 77 8E E2 29 96 C9 44 5F BE > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > <wc> red dye causes cancer, haven't you heard? (; > <Knghtbrd> fucking everything causes cancer, haven't you heard? > <Knghtbrd> => > <archon> no, that causes aids > >
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