David Walser ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote*: > >--- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 11:03:09AM +0800, Leon >> Brooks wrote: >> > Perhaps we can do a `9.0Q Download Edition' which >> is Cooker from a week or >> > fortnight after release? (-: Q as in Quiet or >> Quiescent :-) >> >> Isn't that what mandrakefreq and updates are for? > >Well 8.2 really stabilized in Cooker a few weeks after >release, but you couldn't have gotten to that just >from updates.
the problem with that is that cooker being a developer model, you never really know when the switch happens on packages from stabilizing 8.2 to starting development on 9.0. At any time an unstable package can be introduced by adding in new features, etc.... Also, for things such as a kernel, several external programs (such as win4lin) are built off of the default kernel. When the "fixed" kernel comes out in cooker it may cause problems with other programs that are built off of the standard 8.2 kernel. It would have been nice if the stabilized version was 8.2, or the stabilized version made it into the 8.2 official updates. > >And AFAIK you should have referred to mandrakefreq in >the past tense. It was a good idea though, maybe it >will come back. > >__________________________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! >http://sbc.yahoo.com > -- SI Reasoning [EMAIL PROTECTED] gpg public key ftp://ftp.p-p-i.com/pub/si-mindspring-pubkey.asc The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them. -Albert Einstein
