Re: Is Linux Unix?
John Summerfield <debian@ComputerDatasafe.com.au> writes:
> Brian Nelson wrote:
>
>>There's very little resistance from developers to increase the release
>>frequency. Nearly everyone agrees the current cycles are too long.
>>
>>I think the problem mostly stems from Debian not scaling well. The
>>distribution keeps growing in both size and complexity (more packages,
>>more architectures, larger programs with more dependencies, etc.) but
>>we're still using roughly the same release process we used back when
>>Debian was a fraction of its current size.
>>
>>
>>
> The requirement to release all architecures at once must cause
> problems. I expect that after IA32/AMD64, PPC (in particular Mac) there
> are relatively few developers with a keen interest in the supported
> architectures.
It certainly has taken significant time to get the installer up to snuff
for non-x86 and PPC arches...
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