Re: Is this the Debian Philosophy? (or.... $#@!@#$ bash 2.0!)
I think numbering things this way is a great idea. I would like to see
Debian succeed(?) on and off, in the "real world", the net. The one
thing that I have always liked about Debian is the ability to be easy
but not so easy that I have to be an ape to setup it up. I hope that
with this move to the market place debian does not loose it's hack ability.
As for Mr. Stallman and his problems with the exact name of Debian well....
I'll just say that if he wants an os of his own why dosen't he make one,
yea I know about the HURD and such but hey when is the last time you picked
up a copy of HURD Journal.
Well enough bitting of the hand that feeds.
>The next version of the system will be called "Debian 1.3.1 Revision 1".
>People who make long-term products based on Debian requested that
>we not change the version number of the system if we were only making a
>few bug fixes. For example, X windows was rebuilt because Richard
>Stallman requested that XDM display "Debian GNU/Linux" rather than just
>"Debian Linux". It's worthwhile to insert that change, but not
>worthwhile to make everyone think they need to upgrade their systems
>because of it. Thus, we will not bump the release number to 1.3.2 for minor
>changes.
>
>This has been a large problem for some kinds of retailers, such
>as bookstores - they will not carry Debian unless we can promise them that
>we will give them a life-cycle longer than one month on their product.
>
>You will notice that both Red Hat and Slackware do not change their version
>numbers for bug fixes _at_all_. We will be changing the revision number, but
>not the release number.
>
> Thanks
>
> Bruce
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