March is ambiguous
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| Author | Content |
|---|---|
| rsevenic Feb 07, 2007 9:14 AM EDT |
Did they say which March? |
| jimf Feb 07, 2007 9:33 AM EDT |
Did they say which March? The one when it's ready, of course :) |
| DarrenR114 Feb 07, 2007 9:46 AM EDT |
March? Who's marching? Where are they marching to? Is that with or without full-pack? Oh... I'm sorry ... you obviously meant the March Hare. |
| jimf Feb 07, 2007 9:49 AM EDT |
> the March Hare Yeah, I think he's one of the major Debian Dev's :D |
| jdixon Feb 07, 2007 11:43 AM EDT |
> the March Hare... Are you sure we're not talking about a white rabbit here (I'm late, I'm late). |
| DarrenR114 Feb 07, 2007 11:48 AM EDT |
Everything will be ok as long as it doesn't all just disappear down a big hole. |
| swbrown Feb 07, 2007 9:40 PM EDT |
The issue is psychological I think - - A RC bug fix only had a purpose if that RC bug would have persisted into the release and not been overwritten by a new upstream version. - If you find and fix an RC bug that wouldn't have persisted into the release, as far as the release process goes, you've wasted time. - So people feel like they should only find and fix RC bugs when they would be persisting into release, which is just before a release when everything freezes. Net result, the majority of testing is delayed until right before a release, and the mass filing of RC bugs delays the release. The only thing I've run into that I consider serious is that the installer doesn't set up dmraid ('fakeraid' - really no reason to use it over Linux's software raid unless you are dual booting to Windows) so it's unnecessarily annoying to install on such a setup. Unfortunately, support for dmraid is considered a new feature rather than a bug so is being delayed to after Etch's initial release. |
| jimf Feb 07, 2007 9:44 PM EDT |
Many of the people I know are already running etch for server duty, and virtually all of them are running it for desktop use. |
| incinerator Feb 08, 2007 6:33 AM EDT |
The only thing annoying about the long freeze is that so many new and updated packages will stay stuck in experimental until the freeze is over. No kde 3.5.6. in sid so far :-( |
| Scott_Ruecker Feb 08, 2007 8:12 AM EDT |
>No kde 3.5.6. in sid so far :-( You right, I am using 'testing' and I am running KDE 3.5.5 With Jim's help I installed and updated to Debian testing on my new machine. Thank You Jim. I still have a few things to do to it but for the most part, its done. All I really want is my KOffice and some codec's and I will be a happy man. |
| jimf Feb 08, 2007 8:19 AM EDT |
> will stay stuck in experimental until the freeze is over. No kde 3.5.6. in sid so far :-( If you're that unhappy about it.... A fine time to take a walk on the wild side :D I don't usually run many apps from experimental, but truthfully, 3.5.6 seems to be more stable than 3.5.5. |
| jdixon Feb 08, 2007 10:19 AM EDT |
> No kde 3.5.6. in sid so far :-( You could also compile from the source, use checkinstall to create a .deb package, and install that. |
| jimf Feb 08, 2007 10:40 AM EDT |
Jdixon, If you're running Debian, i think the repo is: deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ experimental main Paste that into /etc/apt/sources.list , and you're good to go. |
| jdixon Feb 08, 2007 11:22 AM EDT |
> If you're running Debian I'm the lone Slackware user, remember. :) |
| jimf Feb 08, 2007 11:24 AM EDT |
Sorry, no help to you then :( |
| tuxchick Feb 08, 2007 11:26 AM EDT |
The way things are going, Debian, Fedora, gNewSense, and Ututo are the only Free distributions left, since Ubuntu and Linspire just got married: http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS7103672739.html |
| jimf Feb 08, 2007 11:43 AM EDT |
> The way things are going Well yeah, the inclusion of proprietary binaries is a real problem, but one that does have some hope with the release of source by Intel, and the development of other free drivers. I have a lot of hope for that. It's off point, but I'm starting to see software patents to be the #1 threat to our freedoms and not the other issues being touted. I've got to thank some of the people on LXer for pointing that out to me. It's really a problem that could shut everyone down, and it can't be addressed in any licensing. |
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