Re: Difference between woody and potato
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From: Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong <masee@usa.net>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 6:44 PM
Subject: Difference between woody and potato
> I'm a bit confused about woody and potato. I though that potato is
> always the newest, bleeding edge distribution. And that woody is the
> code-name for the 2.2 release. So why is unstable pointing to woody,
> and frozen to potato?
I suppose you could break it down more but Debian has three stages:
unstable, frozen and stable. Hamm, Slink, Potato, Woody are just names and
each name goes through all three steps. I'm sure there is something about
this at the web site if you want more.
hth,
kent
>I found this out when I tried to get gimp1.1
> and found it not there, even when my sources.list is pointing to
> unstable. Mind you, gimp1.1 should be in unstable anyways, I think,
> since it's going into 2.2. (or is it?) Clarification and corrections
> are appreciated.
>
> Dazed and Confused. :)
>
> Marshal
>
>
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