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The LWN staff has decided that the time spent processing package updates for various distributions could be better spent producing original content. If you feel like you are missing out on these updates here's the mailing list information for them.
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Posted Feb 8, 2007 4:40 UTC (Thu) by vmlinuz (subscriber, #24) [Link]

+1 Insightful

It's really not hard to get the updates for your distro, and I wouldn't think that most people are all that interested in what's been updated in every single significant distro... I agree it's time better spent elsewhere.

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Posted Feb 8, 2007 17:55 UTC (Thu) by jschrod (subscriber, #1646) [Link]

This is a good decision.

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Posted Feb 8, 2007 22:03 UTC (Thu) by superstoned (subscriber, #33164) [Link]

another 'good decision' from here. i prefer articles and other 'more
meaningfull stuff' :D

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Posted Feb 8, 2007 23:06 UTC (Thu) by thoffman (subscriber, #3063) [Link]

... And thanks for the links to the mailing lists. I should have subscribed to the appropriate list when I switched distros, but I'll do it today at least

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Posted Feb 9, 2007 0:45 UTC (Fri) by djpig (subscriber, #18768) [Link]

What about the Debian lists?

Stable: http://lists.debian.org/debian-changes/
Testing: http://lists.debian.org/debian-testing-changes/
Unstable: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-changes/

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Posted Feb 9, 2007 11:49 UTC (Fri) by k8to (subscriber, #15413) [Link]

I support this decision 100%.

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