RE: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-14 Thread Moore, Paul
From: Hamish Moffatt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 11:02:04AM -0500, Mark Mealman wrote: > > I really don't like unstable either, but I've pretty much > > abandoned the stable tree as too behind the times back when > > slink was nearing freeze. > > Here's a serious question

RE: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-13 Thread Moore, Paul
From: Joey Hess [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I'd like to propose that we make a committment to getting an update to > potato out within a month of the release of the 2.4 kernel or > the release of potato, whichever comes last. (I did a similar thing for > slink in a 3 week time-frame, and so I thi

RE: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-13 Thread Moore, Paul
From: Ron Farrer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Slink is called `stable' for a reason. It's not obsolete > > for people who just want a stable distribution. > > > > Of course, it is obsolete for people who want a nice GNOME > > (or especially KDE) environment, or those who own Athlons or other >

Availability of "unstable/interim" CDs (Was: Danger Will Robinson ! Danger!)

2000-03-13 Thread Moore, Paul
From: Jacob Kuntz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > our biggest handicap is that we're always a year behind everyone > else. being a year behind is suicide in any industry. being a year behind > in an industry that moves as fast as open source software, is idiocy. Agreed. With hardware changing as r