Re: debian distro vs. applications

2001-09-24 Thread Richard Hector
Noah Meyerhans wrote: > > I believe we could have released a version of Debian containing OpenSSH > 2, Xfree86 4.x, and kernel 2.4.x by now had we decided that such a thing > was important. It's important to me, as I'm sure it is to a good number > of other Debian users and developers. Agreed.

Re: debian distro vs. applications

2001-09-23 Thread dman
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 12:34:30PM -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote: | On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 09:26:06PM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote: | > > Sure, stable is always well tested, but by the time it becomes available | > > the software included in it is so old that nobody wants to run it | > > anymore. | >

Re: debian distro vs. applications

2001-09-23 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 09:26:06PM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote: > > Sure, stable is always well tested, but by the time it becomes available > > the software included in it is so old that nobody wants to run it > > anymore. > > Well, almost. I run Potato on machines that I don't generally want to l

Re: debian distro vs. applications

2001-09-22 Thread Craig Dickson
Noah Meyerhans wrote: > Unfortunately, Debian has never been very good at keeping up with > upstream development. They said that the "testing" distribution and > package pools would help speed things up a bit, but it's not likely that > woody will be released fewer than 18 months after potato. >

Re: debian distro vs. applications

2001-09-22 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 03:59:56PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > I switched to Debian2.2r2 about eight months ago (at that time 2.2r2 was > > the latest distribution). Recently, I've been unable to build almost > > all the applications I have tried. The usual problem seems to be missing > > f

Re: debian distro vs. applications

2001-09-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 06:56:23PM -0500, sam rosenfeld ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I switched to Debian2.2r2 about eight months ago (at that time 2.2r2 was > the latest distribution). Recently, I've been unable to build almost > all the applications I have tried. The usual problem seems to be