Re: announcements on www.gnome.org
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 11:09:58PM -0400, Decklin Foster wrote:
> And they call us 'Debian/GNU'. It's almost enough to make me flame
> somebody on a Slashdot message board... ;) I'm sure they're
> well-intentioned and all, but I don't want to hear another clueless
> opinion article about our ``political agenda''... sheesh.
Go read www.debian.org: that may disappoint you.
Our distribution is named Debian/GNU. No need for your trolls here.
> To put another slant on it, this posting must be making a lot of
> newbies think "gee, Debian must be really slow." I would be a bit
We are *slow*: it took ages to get the packages done.
Maybe in the future we can make better.
> happier if they would say that a) they are just mirroring a staging
> area and b) packages are also availible for potato. And of course I
> would have been *much* happier if they had posted (b) when I and
> umpteen other people told them so a month and a half ago. Double
> grumble.
There was the getting_debian.shtml page since I don't remeber when.
lupus
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