On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 19:50, David Chait wrote: > > I dont expect that this will be any different for any of the Linux > > companies and volunteer orgs (Debian) in the coming years. Everytime > > there is a new Debian, the security volunteers say they will only > > maintain the old release for 6 months and there is great wailing and > > nashing of teeth about how shitty Debian is. > > The difference of course is, Debian offers a stable release life of over 2 > years prior. That is hardly as aggravating as making a major migration > potentially twice a year. I think you will find very few orgs willing to That's a lot more thru accident than design. ~,^ The Debian folks would love to release more often, if they could manage to bring together >10,000 packages and >3,000 packagers to make a timely release. (Which I fear Fedora may come to be if Red Hat doesn't keep a *very* strict policy about packages going into Core vs. Extras.) -- Sean Middleditch <elanthis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> AwesomePlay Productions, Inc.
