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biggest problem is long release cycles = out-of-date kernel, X11

biggest problem is long release cycles = out-of-date kernel, X11

Posted Aug 11, 2004 10:50 UTC (Wed) by broonie (subscriber, #7078)
In reply to: biggest problem is long release cycles = out-of-date kernel, X11 by climent
Parent article: Review: Debian-Installer Release Candidate 1 (linux.com)

IIRC the main problem is that the stuff you want to include in the core (kernel, glibc, X, GNOME, KDE, GCC, whatever) is the stuff that has problems: with most of the rest of the packages you can relatively easily just drop it from the release if it's buggy.


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