Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-15 Thread Matthias Berse
On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 11:29:42AM -0500, Jacob Kuntz wrote: > the most commonly installed packages today, and i had to build them for a > dozen machines because stable was too far behind. That's your own fault! If you are that experienced that you can build you own packages you probably should kno

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-15 Thread Erik
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 12:46:39AM +0200, Ari Makela wrote: > John Lapeyre writes: > > >Maybe you find it easy. But you are relatively elite in debian > > knowledge. > > I'm not a beginner. I even earn my living as an unix > administrator. But I'm certainly not a unix guru. > > >I got a

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-14 Thread Ari Makela
John Lapeyre writes: >Maybe you find it easy. But you are relatively elite in debian > knowledge. I'm not a beginner. I even earn my living as an unix administrator. But I'm certainly not a unix guru. >I got a notebook two months ago. The video, sound, and pcmcia are > not supported by

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-14 Thread Mark Mealman
> 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 for you: which parts are too old on slink > to per

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-14 Thread Jacob Kuntz
Ari Makela ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Filip Van Raemdonck writes: > > > And if they have this new hardware, does it mean they should not be > > able to run Debian then? If that's the case, better start rewriting > > some documentation... > > What I ment was that it's quite easy to upgrade Slin

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-14 Thread John Lapeyre
*Ari Makela wrote: > Joey Hess writes: > > Ari Makela wrote: > > > series kernel or newer XFree86. Neither it's difficult to change the > > > kernel on the rescue floppy if the provided kernel does not support > > > hardware. If, Samba, for example, is not new enough, it's not > > > difficult to fe

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-14 Thread Kenneth Scharf
>>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 for you: which parts are too >old on slink >to

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-14 Thread Brian Almeida
On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 01:44:09AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Another point is that to an extent. being outmoded means that > fewer people use Debian; and, that implies that Debian no longer > meets their goals. Not having released for nearly 18 months (that's 3 > generations in in

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-14 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tuesday 14 March 2000, at 12 h 38, the keyboard of Paul Seelig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Depends on the functions one needs. But i'd like to generalize a bit: > the included *apps* are far too old. Stuff like teTeX, Since the teTeX in slink works fine and the one is potato is broken (a b

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-14 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 01:44:09AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Not having released for nearly 18 months [...] Which eighteen months do you refer to here? -- enJoy -*/\*- don't even try to pronounce my first name

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!

2000-03-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
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 for you: which parts are too old on slink to perform the func

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-14 Thread Joey Hess
Ari Makela wrote: > Yes, I've installed Slink on an exotic AST server hardware. 2.0 didn't > work. There was nothing that was hard to fix. You're a better man than I. -- see shy jo

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-14 Thread Ari Makela
Joey Hess writes: > Ari Makela wrote: > > series kernel or newer XFree86. Neither it's difficult to change the > > kernel on the rescue floppy if the provided kernel does not support > > hardware. If, Samba, for example, is not new enough, it's not > > difficult to fetch the sources and compile it.

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-14 Thread Joey Hess
Ari Makela wrote: > series kernel or newer XFree86. Neither it's difficult to change the > kernel on the rescue floppy if the provided kernel does not support > hardware. If, Samba, for example, is not new enough, it's not > difficult to fetch the sources and compile it. Have you ever actually tr

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-14 Thread Ari Makela
Filip Van Raemdonck writes: > And if they have this new hardware, does it mean they should not be > able to run Debian then? If that's the case, better start rewriting > some documentation... What I ment was that it's quite easy to upgrade Slink to use 2.2 series kernel or newer XFree86. Neither

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-14 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Ari" == Ari Makela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ari> Manoj Srivastava writes: >> It is a quality of imlementation issue. If we are seriously >> outmoded, we can't honestly say we are trying to be the best >> distribution out there. Ari> I must say I completely fail to understand your poin

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-14 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
> > We are all using potato, but we are shipping slink, keep that in mind. > This is *wrong* as is wrong the claim that "slink is useless". The vast > majority of the machines I manage are slinks. You, but most of us are using potato in production systems. Slink is a year old. It was released

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-13 Thread Filip Van Raemdonck
On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 12:50:22PM +0200, Ari Makela wrote: > > The point might be that Slink can be updated to use 2.2 kernels and > other sofware which are not included. After all, quality software > compiles usually quite effortlessy with ./configure, make and make > install. > > All said, as

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-13 Thread Szenasi Tamas
Just a short notice: It is not possible to mount a newer ext2 filesystem with the slink kernel-image. Tamas

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger! (PCMCIA anyone?)

2000-03-13 Thread Brian Mays
> On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 11:44:39PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > Why is it bad having a stable kernel installed as default, > > and a 2.4-pre kernel, marked as extra, with warning in the long > > description, also in the distribution? [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marcus Brinkmann) added:

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-13 Thread Ron Farrer
Steve Greenland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Which is it? Do your friends want the newest bleeding edge stuff, or > do they want stability? They can't have both at the same time! Oh, I > see, the want the newest, but they want us to call it "stable". I don't know.. IMO unstable is often more stab

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-13 Thread Mark Mealman
> On 12-Mar-00, 10:56 (CST), Ron Farrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I disagree! (surprise ;) I personally know of about ~4 people who were > > turned away from slink because GNOME and KDE were so OLD. I personally > > got around this by running potato (unstable then), but most people don't > >

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-13 Thread Steve Gore
Just to interject a point of view from someone who is running the "newest available hardware", I have an Athlon with a LeadTek GeForce DDR video card, IBM 13.5gb S.M.A.R.T. drives, and sensors on all vital systems (temps, rpms, and voltages). Potato is rock solid on the system - indeed, potato and

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 >

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-13 Thread David Bristel
8:25 -0800 > From: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: David Bristel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger! > > David Bristel wrote: > > The solution to this is that we ignore woody for the moment, and

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-13 Thread David Bristel
l also be EASIER, since not every single package will change between releases. Dave Bristel On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, Steve Greenland wrote: > Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 15:53:41 -0600 > From: Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: d

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-13 Thread Kenneth Scharf
>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 think this is a reasonable >time-frame.) > >

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-13 Thread Ari Makela
Manoj Srivastava writes: > It is a quality of imlementation issue. If we are seriously > outmoded, we can't honestly say we are trying to be the best > distribution out there. I must say I completely fail to understand your point. Quality has not very much to do with the fact how new t

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-13 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Sunday 12 March 2000, at 20 h 59, the keyboard of =?iso-8859-1?Q?Nicol=E1s_Lichtmaier?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We are all using potato, but we are shipping slink, keep that in mind. This is *wrong* as is wrong the claim that "slink is useless". The vast majority of the machines I mana

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-13 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 09:39:52AM +1100, Drake Diedrich wrote: > New hardware support seems to be a reasonable justification for allowing > new versions into stable/frozen if there is also an older version there > for the rest of us to fall back on in case it's a lemon. This would be valid, howev

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-13 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 08:59:30PM -0300, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: > We are all using potato, but we are shipping slink, keep that in mind. last year we were...but now i would bet that half of us (or more) are running woody, not potato. imo, that says a lot about the quality of debian "unstable

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-13 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 03:53:41PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 12-Mar-00, 10:56 (CST), Ron Farrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I disagree! (surprise ;) I personally know of about ~4 people who > > were turned away from slink because GNOME and KDE were so OLD. I > > personally got around t

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-13 Thread Joey Hess
Will Barton wrote: > I like the idea a lot, but I have a question about version numbers. Potato > is > 2.2, so would you call 2.2.1? I'm assuming it would be more than just 2.2r2, > etc. Yes, that makes sense to me. > It would be better to have these included in another release with our > bl

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-13 Thread Joey Hess
Ben Collins wrote: > > - X 4.0 drivers (but probably just X servers, to minimize changes; Branden > > has huge reorganizations in mind for X) > > I'll agree with everything but this. X 4.0 stands to push aside support > for some of our architectures. My idea was just to include the driver packa

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-13 Thread Will Barton
> This update would NOT be blessed as stable, it would be a semi-stable > release with: > > - 2.4 kernel and support utilities > - X 4.0 drivers (but probably just X servers, to minimize changes; Branden > has huge reorganizations in mind for X) > > This would be a full Debian release, with a v

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-13 Thread Ben Collins
> - X 4.0 drivers (but probably just X servers, to minimize changes; Branden > has huge reorganizations in mind for X) I'll agree with everything but this. X 4.0 stands to push aside support for some of our architectures. Atleast from what I have read, m68k and sparc will not be supported under

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-13 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 06:18:25PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > 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-fram

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-13 Thread Joey Hess
David Bristel wrote: > The solution to this is that we ignore woody for the moment, and begin an all > out effort to get the 2.4 kernel, XF4.0, and Apache 2.0 into Debian as STABLE. > The work for these things can also incorporate the work needed to re-add the > packages that were removed because o

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-13 Thread Jacob Kuntz
Alisdair McDiarmid ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > What's the point in providing a briefly tested package of 2.4.0 when, > by the time potato is out and burnt onto CDs, 2.4.x (where x > 0) will > be available and people can compile their own kernel? > > The only reason for putting a 2.4.x kernel i

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-13 Thread Jacob Kuntz
Steve Greenland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Let's see, we're going to release potato (I *hope*) before kernel 2.4.0 > is released, but we're outdated. Hmmm. Somehow, I just don't get it. > what that means is that we've almost totally missed the 2.2 kernel. we're an entire release cycle behind

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-13 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
> Which is it? Do your friends want the newest bleeding edge stuff, or > do they want stability? They can't have both at the same time! Oh, I > see, the want the newest, but they want us to call it "stable". > > Sigh. > > Why is is this basic distinction so hard to explain to people? Testing > an

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-12 Thread Jordi
On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 04:30:21PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Probably not. But That's why no one is talking about making > 2.4 the default kernel. We package it up, we put i warnings, and we > let it out for those of us who can really use it. Those can really use it are those who

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-12 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 04:30:21PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >>"Jason" == Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Jason> On 11 Mar 2000, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >> I've been running 2.3 kernels for a while now, and so have > >> several people. Though it may not work as a defaul

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-12 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 04:30:21PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >>"Jason" == Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Jason> On 11 Mar 2000, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >> I've been running 2.3 kernels for a while now, and so have > >> several people. Though it may not work as a defaul

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-12 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Jason" == Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jason> On 11 Mar 2000, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> I've been running 2.3 kernels for a while now, and so have >> several people. Though it may not work as a default ekrnel, Jason> But can we integrate the necessary new changes to properl

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-12 Thread Drake Diedrich
On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 06:27:41PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > Nothing wrong about that, if we don't go a long way to make additional > changes in the various admin packages (isdn, pcmcia comes to mind). > > I was always a supporter of the latest and greatest kernel as a binary > package i

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-12 Thread Steve Greenland
On 12-Mar-00, 06:37 (CST), Michael Meskes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 11:14:56PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > The simple fact you are missing is that Debian is not an industry. > > Which doesn't mean that all arguments are not valid. As Manoj pointed out, > being ou

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-12 Thread Steve Greenland
On 12-Mar-00, 10:56 (CST), Ron Farrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I disagree! (surprise ;) I personally know of about ~4 people who were > turned away from slink because GNOME and KDE were so OLD. I personally > got around this by running potato (unstable then), but most people don't > WANT to ru

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-12 Thread Jacob Kuntz
Stefan Ott ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > i still don't see why compiling a kernel on your own is a problem. i > have never used a precompiled kernel, and i never had problems. > well, if you want to stay on the topic of which kernel to include, there's something you must understand. there are nume

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-12 Thread SCOTT FENTON
I have. In fact at one point I toyed with putting in a 2.3 kernel in. But I'm thinking of the people who don't want to compile a new kernel and listen to marketdroids for facts (eg. Debian is so out of date, it still has a 2.0 kernel). Jim Lynch wrote: > > If debian puts a 2.4 in, they will have

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-12 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 05:20:21PM +0100, Stefan Ott wrote: > i still don't see why compiling a kernel on your own is a problem. i > have never used a precompiled kernel, and i never had problems. Install floppy kernel has to be able to work with your system. Beyond that, yeah build your own. --

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-12 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 01:37:01PM +0100, Michael Meskes wrote: > On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 11:14:56PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > The simple fact you are missing is that Debian is not an industry. > > Which doesn't mean that all arguments are not valid. As Manoj pointed out, > being outdated

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-12 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 11:44:39PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >>"Marcus" == Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Marcus> Making last minute changes and rushing in x.0 versions of > Marcus> critical software is just Plain Wrong. Especially the Linux > Marcus> kernels are often

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-12 Thread Ron Farrer
Josip Rodin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > 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 hardware the kern

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-12 Thread paul
On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, Stefan said: > i still don't see why compiling a kernel on your own is a problem. i > have never used a precompiled kernel, and i never had problems. Same here. IMHO, kernel-image packages are nice, but AFAIK, most users benifit from recompiling the kernel at some point any

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-12 Thread paul
On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, Dave said: > The solution to this is that we ignore woody for the moment, and begin an all > out effort to get the 2.4 kernel, XF4.0, and Apache 2.0 into Debian as STABLE. > The work for these things can also incorporate the work needed to re-add the > packages that were remov

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-12 Thread Stefan Ott
ar 2000, Jacob Kuntz wrote: > > > Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 01:02:42 -0500 > > From: Jacob Kuntz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > > Subject: Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger! > > Resent-Date: 12 Mar 2000 06:01:56 - > > Resent-Fro

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-12 Thread David Bristel
Bristel On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, Jacob Kuntz wrote: > Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 01:02:42 -0500 > From: Jacob Kuntz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger! > Resent-Date: 12 Mar 2000 06:01:56 - > Resent-From: debian-d

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-12 Thread David Bristel
Dave Bristel On Sat, 11 Mar 2000, Jacob Kuntz wrote: > Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 16:06:01 -0500 > From: Jacob Kuntz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger! > Resent-Date: 11 Mar 2000 21:05:46 -000

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-12 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 11:41:10PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Josip> Why do we have to be a part of an industry? Debian would be > Josip> commercial if we truely cared about the industry... > > It is a quality of imlementation issue. If we are seriously > outmoded, we can't honest

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-12 Thread Michael Meskes
On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 11:14:56PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > The simple fact you are missing is that Debian is not an industry. Which doesn't mean that all arguments are not valid. As Manoj pointed out, being outdated is not making us reach our technical goals. > Don't make the same mistak

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-12 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On 11 Mar 2000, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > I've been running 2.3 kernels for a while now, and so have > several people. Though it may not work as a default ekrnel, But can we integrate the necessary new changes to properly support 2.4? devfsd, the new firewall code, new PCMCIA, etc? Jas

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-12 Thread Jacob Kuntz
Hamish Moffatt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 04:06:01PM -0500, Jacob Kuntz wrote: > > 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 > > Have you listened to yourse

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-12 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Ben" == Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ben> What problems have we have with slink not being 2.2? I don't see Ben> any. In fact, I protest profusely, since 2.4 will require a Ben> great deal of work to work out the pcmcia kinks. There is Ben> nothing wrong with 2.2. What I want is

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-12 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Marcus" == Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Marcus> Making last minute changes and rushing in x.0 versions of Marcus> critical software is just Plain Wrong. Especially the Linux Marcus> kernels are often very unstable 'til x.12 or 14. Why is it bad having a stable kerne

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-12 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Josip" == Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Josip> Why do we have to be a part of an industry? Debian would be Josip> commercial if we truely cared about the industry... It is a quality of imlementation issue. If we are seriously outmoded, we can't honestly say we are trying t

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-12 Thread Syed Khader Vali
> On Sat, 11 Mar 2000 22:32:34 +0100, Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Josip> On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 04:06:01PM -0500, Jacob Kuntz Josip> wrote: >> behind in an industry that moves as fast as open source >> software, is idiocy. Josip> Why do we have to be a part of an

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 04:06:01PM -0500, Jacob Kuntz wrote: > 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 Have you listened to yourself? Depends on what your aims are; if you want to be

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-12 Thread The Doctor What
Alright, here's the warning so I don't see to be 'boasting' or something similar: I work for TurboLinux as the lead distribution engineer. Before most of debian-devel's technical skills, I am but a neophyte. However, I would like to offer my point of view as someone working in the "industry". Y

"stable-test"? (WAS: Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!)

2000-03-12 Thread Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS
At the place where I work they still have a number of machines running an ancient Linux distribution called "FT" with the 1.2.13 kernel. The machines work perfectly. In fact, they work a lot better than the Red Hat 6.0 machines in some respects: there are a number of things (xfs, lpr with Netware p

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-12 Thread Jutta Wrage
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SCOTT FENTON <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I reccomend >that, even if it's not the default, we include a 2.4 /binary/ in potato. What about an update later? I upgraded to potato (not in one step) because I needed some special packages and did not want to compile them. But m

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-12 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, 11 Mar 2000, Florian Lohoff wrote: > On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 04:06:01PM -0500, Jacob Kuntz wrote: > > > IMHO, leaving out 2.4 is a bad idea. there were problems with 2.0 -> 2.2. > > there was an incompatible build of lsof, as well as some networking > > problems. i feel the same way about

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-11 Thread Robert Thomson
On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 06:30:40PM -0500, Jacob Kuntz wrote: > i don't really feel that this issue pertains specifically to the kernel, or > X, or apache. it has much more to do with the fact that our release practice > makes it impossible to have Good Software Now. we spend all of our time > fixin

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-11 Thread ressu
as i have always used and will be using in future tha unstable version of Debian, i don't know about the problems in outdated software, but many of my friends tend to complain that debian is outdated, and you can't get all the Neat-O software for it, after i mention that they are in unstable i can

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-11 Thread Jacob Kuntz
Marcus Brinkmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 04:06:01PM -0500, Jacob Kuntz wrote: > > our biggest handicap is that we're always a year behind everyone else. being > > a year behind is suicide in any industry. > > The simple fact you are missing is that Debian is not an ind

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-11 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 04:06:01PM -0500, Jacob Kuntz wrote: > IMHO, leaving out 2.4 is a bad idea. there were problems with 2.0 -> 2.2. > there was an incompatible build of lsof, as well as some networking > problems. i feel the same way about xf86 4.0 and apache 2.0. all of these > releases are

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-11 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 04:06:01PM -0500, Jacob Kuntz wrote: > our biggest handicap is that we're always a year behind everyone else. being > a year behind is suicide in any industry. The simple fact you are missing is that Debian is not an industry. Don't make the same mistakes as the industry. M

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-11 Thread Jesse Jacobsen
I've been using unstable (now frozen) since before potato, mostly because there have been features I need only offered in unstable. This started before the fantastic work began on point releases of slink. So far I don't mind, because unstable has been stable enough for me. However, as a Debian us

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-11 Thread John Travers
paul wrote: > > I find it hard to believe that this issue arises every time a new kernel is > released. It may be useful to some to run the latest, but for most it's not > an issue. IMHO including the latest kernel is only useful as a marketing > gimmick, and as Debian is non-commercial we don't

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-11 Thread Randolph Chung
> IMHO, leaving out 2.4 is a bad idea. there were problems with 2.0 -> 2.2. there are several indications that 2.4 proper won't be out till sometime in the summer. i sure hope potato is out before then... randolph -- Debian Developer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.TauSq.org/

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-11 Thread paul
I find it hard to believe that this issue arises every time a new kernel is released. It may be useful to some to run the latest, but for most it's not an issue. IMHO including the latest kernel is only useful as a marketing gimmick, and as Debian is non-commercial we don't need that kind of m

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-11 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 04:06:01PM -0500, Jacob Kuntz wrote: > 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. Why do we have to be a part of an industry? Debian would be commercial if we truely cared about

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-11 Thread Jacob Kuntz
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. our stable release is using 2.0.36. most people are afraid of our 'unstable' tree. you've

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-11 Thread Jim Lynch
If debian puts a 2.4 in, they will have to spend time testing it. there's enough to do without more stuff that we don't even know will be out... If you want 2.3 or 2.4, build it yourself. Look into kernel-package. -Jim --- Jim Lynch Finger for pgp key as Laney College CIS admin: [EMAIL P

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-11 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 01:57:49PM -0500, SCOTT FENTON wrote: > OK, Linus has just put out 2.3.51, the next patch will be a pre-2.4 one. > To avoid the problems we've had with slink not being 2.2, I reccomend > that, even if it's not the default, we include a 2.4 /binary/ in potato. > You could eve