On Sun, 13 May 2001, Stuart Krivis wrote: > > On Saturday, May 12, 2001, at 11:25 PM, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > my personal guess is that anything before late november is not going > > to happen. but who knows, if more people help with boot floppies that > > would probably help. the main thing is going to be seeing how many > > times freezes have to be restarted because RC bugs were not fixed. > > thats why potato's freeze took so long. > > > > I've always wondered why Debian has such trouble with releases. The > RedHat clones put stuff out regularly. Yeah, I know, Debian actually > wants things to _work_. :-) But FreeBSD also does a better job at new > releases, and FreeBSD is high quality like Debian IMO.
One consideration, already mentioned, is the number of packages that make up a Debian GNU/Linux release. Another is, unlike FreeBSD, Debian supports a huge number of architechtures. FreeBSD supports x86, DEC-Alpha and PC98 (taken directly from their site)... The installer project for Debian is much more ambitious than any of the *BSD's as well - this isn't a knock at the *BSD'ers, either - but the goals are different. The Debian team wants to make it much easier for newer folks to install Debian. Whatever graces FreeBSD may have, a user-friendly install is NOT one of them. Also - the Debian team works on integrating software into releases that is constantly - and rapidly - changing. Often when one thing changes, it breaks another thing - and you have to change thing A because it's either a crucial bux or security fix, or a vital new feature that everyone wants. I won't even touch the Red Hat comment - suffice it to say that even though Debian releases may not be "first to market" they're often the best. Besides, if you desperately need a package/kernel/window manager or whatever, you can always pull it from Sid or just download and compile it yourself. Otherwise - why worry? If your system works and you can get things done with it, then a new release isn't a necessity. And, of course, you're always free to pitch in and help speed things up... Just my thoughts... Take care, Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier -=- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ZonkerBooks.net/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= "It's true what they say...you can never go home again, but I guess you can shop there." -- Martin Blank "Grosse Point Blank"
