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Re: Why is Debian lagging so much behind Slackware?



on Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 09:27:57PM -0700, Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote:

> > I see. That's why Debian is not in a rush to produce boot diskettes. It's
> > not for people like us.
> 
> No.
> 
> Bootdisks aren't available yet because they're produced as one of the
> later steps of the release process.  Bootdisks have to interact
> properly with all the other portions of the release, as well as contain
> the latest stable driver for hardware likely to be encountered during
> install.

Having read Ben Collins's post, I've concluded I'm full of shit on this
point.

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