Vendors Team on Debian-Based Enterprise Linux (eWeek) [LWN.net]

Vendors Team on Debian-Based Enterprise Linux (eWeek)

Posted Jul 10, 2005 21:38 UTC (Sun) by louie (subscriber, #3285)
In reply to: Vendors Team on Debian-Based Enterprise Linux (eWeek) by dlang
Parent article: Vendors Team on Debian-Based Enterprise Linux (eWeek)

Aside from Bruce promising (though I can't find a link now) that they were ready to release 'whenever sarge released', aka several weeks ago now, I don't think it bodes well for the future of an enterprise project if you can't stabilize from and release from a given, existing codebase. Ubuntu has now released several times from pre-sarge codebases, and at various points redhat, sun, ximian and others have all learned to either (1) stabilize unstable codebases or (2) release very promptly after the release of a stable release you were waiting on. That Userlinux had all this time to prepare for sarge, and despite all the time they had to prep has not yet gotten out so much as a beta based on sarge, bodes poorly for userlinux.

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Vendors Team on Debian-Based Enterprise Linux (eWeek)

Posted Jul 11, 2005 6:00 UTC (Mon) by jstAusr (guest, #27224) [Link]

>Ubuntu has now released several times from pre-sarge codebases...

Well OK. As long as you define 'several' as more than one, such as two.

Vendors Team on Debian-Based Enterprise Linux (eWeek)

Posted Jul 11, 2005 11:51 UTC (Mon) by louie (subscriber, #3285) [Link]

Which is two more* than UserLinux has had, ironic, given that UserLinux was announced first.

*ignoring the various breezy beta releases

Vendors Team on Debian-Based Enterprise Linux (eWeek)

Posted Jul 11, 2005 21:27 UTC (Mon) by rm6990 (guest, #30921) [Link]

>> Well OK. As long as you define 'several' as more than one, such as two.

Ubuntu has made two releases, 4.10 and 5.04. They are based more on Sid than Sarge anyways, which is even more proof of their ability to stablize unstable code bases.