Re: please help test debian frozen
i've been using potato since late january and have been doing apt-get
dist-upgrade at least once a month. potato has been very very good to
me. if not for power outages and the 'init 6' i'm prone to do, i don't
need to reboot my system.
On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 10:18:16AM +0200, Dietmar wrote:
> Joey Hess wrote:
>
> > [ This is not an official announcement of the Debian project, just a
> > Debian developer speaking up with his personal opinion. ]
> >
> > Debian is now well into its second test cycle for the "potato" (2.2)
> > release of Debian. Now is an excellent time to help us test the
> > distribution. Frozen is quite stable now; we are only making small
> > changes to it every 2 weeks or so, mainly security fixes. As such, it is
> > now almost as stable as stable.
> >
> > And of course, it is much more up-to-date, with many enhancements,
> > additions, and bugfixes. At this point, in my opinion, there is no reason
> > to use Debian stable except for absolutely mission critical applications.
> > For exerything else, frozen is a great choice. (Put stable on your mars
> > lander; use frozen in mission control ;-).
> >
> > So I'm writing to encourage people to upgrade to frozen, and if you can,
> > do new installs with frozen. Every report we receive of another clean
> > upgrade/install makes us that much more likely to release soon. So if
> > you upgrade or install frozen, post a report to the mailing list
> > <debian-testing@lists.debian.org>. Describe how you upgraded or installed.
> > If everything went perfectly, say so; If there were some problems, do your
> > best to describe them, and any relevant information about your system.
> >
> > Release notes for potato are here:
> > http://www.debian.org/releases/potato/
> >
> > For fresh installs, an install guide is here:
> > http://www.debian.org/releases/potato/i386/install
> >
> > For upgrades:
> > http://www.debian.org/releases/potato/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html
> >
> > CD images are here:
> > http://cdimage.debian.org/potato_pre.html
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > --
> > see shy jo
> >
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> Yes, but where should we report our experiences.
> 2 weeks ago I installed potato on my box from scratch: I the boot images and the base
> system through ftp and continued with apt-get. As far as I remember there were only
> one severe problem. The loopback-device was not configured from start. So it took me
> some time to figure out why half of my net-related software would not work and where
> net-devices are generally configured in potato. For the rest potato is great.
>
> mfg,
> Dietmar
>
>
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