On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 02:40:47PM -0800, David Bristel wrote: > On this issue, couldn't re release Debian 2.2 for PowerPC after x86? We > shouldn't need to hold back the release of any one platform because another > isn't ready yet. This WOULD cause some confusion, but there have been major lib > differences between platforms before. From what I remember, the Sparc dist was > up at glibc 2.0 well before x86 was. PowerPC is NOT holding up potato. There have only recently appeared some x86 boot-floppies developers in the effort. All previous work on the new boot-floppies was done by porters (including generic fixes for potato and 2.2 kernels). The delay is caused by the introduction of a new upstream busybox, the commitment to include dhcp and ftp/http install support, and the new task installation scheme. Hardly reason to punish the more or less complete PowerPC port which has had test potato boot-floppies images available long before x86 ever has. Any new x86-only release based on the old boot-floppies should NOT be 2.2 but rather Joey's proposed major slink update. -- Matt Porter mmporter@home.com This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot.
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