>>>>> "Ben" == Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 07:44:58PM -0500, Marshal Kar-Cheung > Wong wrote: >> I'm a bit confused about woody and potato. I though that >> potato is always the newest, bleeding edge distribution. And >> that woody is the code-name for the 2.2 release. So why is >> unstable pointing to woody, and frozen to potato? I found this >> out when I tried to get gimp1.1 and found it not there, even >> when my sources.list is pointing to unstable. Mind you, >> gimp1.1 should be in unstable anyways, I think, since it's >> going into 2.2. (or is it?) Clarification and corrections are >> appreciated. > potato and woody are just code names. The actual "unstable" is > bleeding edge, and frozen is the next release. Currently potato > is frozen (a la Debian 2.2) and woody is the new > unstable. Sooner or later potato will release and become > unstable...then some time down the road woody will freeze and > become frozen...and the whole cycle starts again (but something > else will be the new unstable, not sure of the code name > though). Buzz perhaps? :) > Ben > -- > -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ > / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian > GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' > `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'