On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 07:50:50PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > Real soon now we're going to need some document that we can use as a > release announcement for potato. As far as I know, we don't have one > yet, right? > > I think the problem is that we've been working on this so long, we've begun > to forget what's changed since the last release. :-/ So I'm going to try to > gather as many possible things to announce as I can in this email and > thread. We can sort it out later. > > I've just read all posts made to debian-publicity in the past year, and > the following items have been suggested for such a document: > > * <idea>Check with ftp sites and mirrors how many unique IP's have dl's > the potato package list, the brag: > "This is the best-tested linux distribution release in history" and cite > the total number of systems that have installed potato from the net. Hmm, decent idea, but might wanna use a number smaller than what you get, because not necessarily all unique IP's are new .. and just because debian should be humble:) > * debconf [ probably not used widly enough to be announced yet though ] Probably not > > There is some useful publicity information in the release notes for potato: > > * Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 ships with kernels from the 2.2 kernel series. > The 2.2 kernel series are a new kernel generation introducing several > valuable changes both in the kernel and in other programs based on kernel > features, along with a whole slew of new hardware drivers and bug fixes > for existing drivers. This is something that i dont see as important, because its assumed, and because i have a feeling debian would be flamed badly for "bragging" about how we have 2.2, a long time after everyone else has shipped 2.2. [this is all i really wanted to say, but figured i could comment on the otherstuff long as i'm filling your mailbox ..] Other things to mention: ifup/ifdown/etc. Better pam integration(been awhile since i used slink, but iirc the pam integration wasn't nearly as good) probably more. > > -- > see shy jo > Erik Bernhardson journey@jps.net -- It is better to remain silent and be considered a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. -- Abraham Lincoln
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