Re: Wish: Unfreeze Woody and start anew
On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 04:17:15PM -0500, Paul Baker wrote:
> If you ask me, that is a testament to just how good of a release Potato
> was that we were able to wait almost 2 years before releasing a major
> revision. Makes me proud to be a Debian user, and relieves me as a
> System Administrator that I don't have to go through major software
> upgrade pains every 6 months in order to make sure my system is
> up-to-date with security fixes. A new release every 2 years is plenty
> quick if you ask me. When you are maintaining a cluster of systems, OS
> upgrades are the things you most dread because there is a lot, I repeat
> A LOT of testing that must be done before rolling things out. One of the
> reasons I use Debian is that I don't have to expose the stability of my
> systems to Microsoft like release cycles that most of the other Linux
> distributions put their users through.
You're not forced to upgrade with every new release, especially with
distributions that keep up-to-date with security fixes for their older
releases.
Of course, you might be forced by users or management, but that's really
not the distribution's fault. :)
--
Glenn Maynard
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