On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 01:27:42AM +0000, Jules Bean wrote: > > I feel the delay in the freeze a bad move on our part., I am to assume now > > that the 'on the shelf boxed' version of Debian oreilly plans to release > > is now going to be forced to include Debian 2.1 Slink. This is just not > > going to be able to compete with the newer redhat 6.x releases., It > > certainly isnt a good way to start converting users to Debian, by trying > > to sell them a dist with packages that are all a year old. > > Incidentally, I don't find converting users as a goal in our social > contract. It's right after the line that says we must lynch Bill Gates, pillage his house, and distribute has hardware among the ranks (after decontamination of course) ;> > Our goal is to be an excellent free software operating system. User > conversions aren't really part of it. Which is not to say that that isn't > a personal goal of many of us. But it's not a *project* goal, as far as I > know. I genearally agree that it shouldn't be our primary consideration to have the latest and best, however there's just enough hardware out there that REQUIRES potato (or at least slink + .5) that we have to do something. There are also security issues and apparently an odd y2k issue or two in slink. This MUST be dealt with. joeyh has a great solution, we need to implement it. -- - Joseph Carter GnuPG public key: 1024D/DCF9DAB3, 2048g/3F9C2A43 - knghtbrd@debian.org 20F6 2261 F185 7A3E 79FC 44F9 8FF7 D7A3 DCF9 DAB3 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the solution to Debian's problem .. and since the only real way to create more relatives of developers is to have children, we need more sex! It's a long term investment ... it's the work itself that is satisfying! -- Craig Brozefsky
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