Forking debian-user?
Certainly as a longstanding kibitzer on this list, it is none of my business.
However, I would like nevertheless to point out the following, relevent to
recent suggestions that the list splinter into two or more offspring:
Over approximately a 12 hour period today, I received debian-user digests
containing approximately the following balance of postings:
Discussion of debian administrative matters, etc.: 60 posts.
Help requests, and responses: 44 posts.
The discussions have been lively and interesting, by the way. Flames were
(needlessly) thrown.
Parenthetically, I am still confused by the fact that Debian has it's own
way with kernel sources and headers, as well as sources for packaged
modules. I still use Debian; and I still want a system upon which I can
install unix programs of many kinds. I do appreciate, and have come to rely
upon the ease of installing Debian packages; I would appreciate help
learning how to become less dependent. [Meaning not that I might want
personal advice, but rather that I would appreciate the availability of
documentation and a system conforming to some global standards (isn't that
pretty much what *nix is about?)].
The Debian watchword has been from early on, a system that can be painlessly
upgraded. At least twice, this watchword has failed---when a.out moved over
to ELF, and when libc5 moved over to libc6. In between these big changes,
have been an endless stream of smaller changes.
The friday snapshot is a good idea.
It's all none of my business.
Alan Davis
adavis@netpci.com
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