On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 04:59:20PM +0100, Paul Sladen wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Martin Garton wrote:
> >
> > I currently use (among other things) RH7.3 I would try woody if they ever
> > get round to a stable release. :-)
> >
> > *ducks*
>
> You're right to duck... :-) Debian people are paranoid freaks hell-bent on
> perfection (which is a good thing(tm)). Woody/testing (although not yet
> released) is an order of magnitude more stable than what RedHat and friends
> pass off as a `release'.
Yes. It does has the side effect that Debian only releases once a
decade, and whilst a freeze is in effect (normally about 2 years) no new
software gets included. So currently no KDE3/QT3, XFree86 4.2 and no
Mozilla 1.0
> You wouldn't ship a bleeding-edge kernel, or semi-alpha-grade compilers in a
> `stable release' would you(!?). :-)
I can't remember what Linus said about that but it was quite funny!
OTOH, Red Hat does fund a lot of development which is invaluable such as
Steven Tweedie with ext3 and I think Ingo Molnar (sp?) is also employed
by them (schedular 0(1) and the tux kernel webserver).
I'm fairly certain that if you ask any of the vendors at
http://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/ (especially the humans rather than the
companies) that they will send you woody cds. If you have the bandwidth
then go to http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ and there you have 3 links
for doing 'over the net' installs of woody.
There, now no one has any excuses for not switching to debian/woody.
Matthew
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