Re: Second official Test Cycle for Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 scheduled
Dr. Yasha Karant wrote:
> Mr. Schulze,
>
> One request, please -- I have made this request before but the Debian
> folks just seem not to listen.
>
> Many "commercial" linux distributions (e.g., Red Hat) come with the sound
> support built-in. I (and others) have had problem building the sound system
> from scratch. What I have had to do is to go to the archives of another
> distribution (for the same actual linux kernel as the one Debian installed
> on my platform, e.g., 2.0.36), find the actual sound driver binary modules,
> ftp these to my workstation, and then load these into the running kernel.
> I do not mind using loadable binary driver modules -- I mind not having
> sound support.
>
> I am writing this because the new production release of Debian may require
> me to go on an Easter egg hunt to find the modules I need.
>
> Please, please, ask the Debian folks to provide the same binary module list
> that Red Hat does, even if it means going to Red Hat to get the "binaries" to
> repackage as a .deb .
>
> Thanks.
>
> Yasha Karant
> ykarant@csci.csusb.edu
>
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > The Debian Project press@debian.org
> > http://www.debian.org/ Martin Schulze
> > May 23, 2000
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > The next step to release `potato' alias Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 will be
> > taken soon. On Wednesday, May 24th, the first official Test Cycle[1]
> > ends. During the next days after the end packages scheduled for
> > installation will be installed and packages with release critical bugs
> > will be purged.
> >
> > Special attention has to be taken for packages whose bugs don't appear
> > in `potato' but only in `woody'. This is also a request for
> > developers to review the list of release critical bugs[2] and mark
> > them properly. The `woody' distribution is the successor of `potato'
> > and currently tagged `unstable'. It is already being actively
> > developed.
> >
> > "The first test cycle flushed out some coordination problems", says
> > Richard Braakman, current Release-Manager for the Debian Project. "We
> > hope that the next cycle will be a more thorough test of the
> > distribution itself."
> >
> > On Monday, May 29th, the next test cycle will start. During the next
> > days after Monday boot-floppies and cd images will stabilize and
> > demonstrate the high quality of the distribution.
> >
> > >> About Debian
> >
> > The Debian project is an organization of many users who volunteer
> > their time and effort. Its tasks include maintaining and updating Debian
> > GNU/Linux which is a free distribution of the GNU/Linux operating system,
> > and the development of the Debian GNU/Hurd operating system.
> >
> > >> Contact Information
> >
> > For further information, please send email to the Debian Press Team
> > <press@debian.org> or visit the Debian homepage at <http://www.debian.org/>
> >
> > [1] http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-announce-00/msg00005.html
> >
> > [2] List of release critical bugs http://master.debian.org/~wakkerma/bugs/
> >
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