Re: Early draft of release notes
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 12:59:56AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Rob Bradford wrote:
> > Any ideas for structure/content would be much appreciated.
>
> Looks like you're doing fine on structure.
>
> What's new in the installation system:
>
> - debootstrap downloads and installs the base system from scratch now;
> most installs won't need to fool with the base tarball, or with a ton
> of floppies.
>
> - The task system has been revamped. The selection of tasks gone over
> and tightened up. It is now much easier to install only part of a
> task, rather than the whole thing.
>
> - Debconf is now the main interface users interact with during
> installation and configuration of packages (potato's release notes
> promised this would be so, and while there are still some holdouts,
> nearly all interaction is done via debconf now).
>
> - I suspect that the overall installed size of the base system (and thus
> one of Debian's minimum system requirements) may have gone *down* from
> potato, due to various space-reduction changes (especially the locales
> change). If so, it'd be really cool to mention that. TODO: compare
> unpacked size of potato's base.tgz with the chroot debootstrap builds.
>
> What's new in the distribution:
>
> - apt now has support for "pinning", which can be used to track stable,
> while easily pulling selected updated packages from unstable or
> testing.
>
> - Build dependancies have been added to a great deal of the
s/pendan/penden
> distribution. These aid in compiling packages from source, letting you
> make sure everything necessary is installed before starting the compile.
> "apt-get build-dep" can be used to automatically install the necessary
> packages.
>
> - A fancy Gnome frontend has been added to debconf, and a flexible
> backend database as well.
>
> - Numerous frontends for apt have been in development throughout woody's
> development cycle, and many of them are nearing a quite usable state.
>
> - A major new release of X, version 4.0, is included, with more support
> for more hardware, better hardware autodetection, etc.
>
> - This is the first version of Debian to include a full-featured, free,
> web browser (mozilla). (I think this is really significant, since this
> may be the first release where most of our users don't go install
> netscape from non-free to get a decent browser.)
>
> - (The normal bragging about new versions of stuff, added packages and
> cd's and so on.)
>
> Oh, one structural note: It might be nice if some of these items were
> hyperlinks to somewhere that provided more information. So you could
> click on "pinning" to see the (hypothetical) apt pinning HOWTO or
> whatever.
>
> --
> see shy jo
>
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