On Thu, 25 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Which is also one of the reasons it takes Debian 2.5 years to issue a > new release!
Oh, come, come -- it's not really -that- quick, is it? ;-) > Regardless of distribution, you get a lot more bang for your buck > with Linux than you do with any commercial OS! Now, if we could just > boost the QA level of all the distributions a little :) Alas, QA has one (or two, depending on how you look at it) strike(s) against it: - it's not "sexy," which means relatively few do it voluntarily, which means - it costs money. That being said, more testing is required... but even less likely to happen, what with, as Paul noted, the almost ridiculous amount of software one gets with a stock distribution these days. Fer Pete's sake: my first slackware base install was something like 8 floppies (plus boot & root). I imagine Mandrake will hit that number of CD-ROMs soon, if they haven't already! Funny -- that roughly follows Moore's Law. I wonder if there's a correlation? [Ken in 2010: "Sheesh! Where'd I put DVD #17?"] -Ken ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
