Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-06 Thread Thomas Zimmerman
On 04-Jan 09:45, Steve Greenland wrote: On 04-Jan-05, 07:40 (CST), Paul van der Vlis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of the biggest disadvantages of Debian for me is the long time it takes for a new stable version. If you want Ubuntu or Progeny, you know where[1] to find them. :-)

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-06 Thread Thomas Zimmerman
On 05-Jan 09:30, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote: El mié, 05-01-2005 a las 04:16 -0800, Stephen Birch escribió: Paul van der Vlis([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-01-04 14:40: Hello, One of the biggest disadvantages of Debian for me is the long time it takes for a new stable version. I

Re: Debian should not modify the kernels!

2003-09-25 Thread Thomas Zimmerman
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 22:04:15 +0200 martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd appreciate if you would not quote me on a mailing list without my consent. Anyhow... also sprach Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003.09.22.2114 +0200]: It's a well accepted fact among kernel developers that

Re: [PROPOSAL] Debian Release Plan

2003-08-02 Thread Thomas Zimmerman
On Sat, 2 Aug 2003 01:25:51 -0400 Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If something has been in unstable for a year and hasn't managed to have few enough bugs to make it into testing, then I don't care to have it in the release (either the older or newer version). But this is software that

Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?

2002-11-24 Thread Thomas Zimmerman
On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 19:37:02 + Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Turning on IDE DMA is a performance improvement of around a factor of 6-10 (2-3Mb/sec - 25-40Mb/sec), for disk-bound operations. You can get *more* than a 6-times improvement in performance? Well, no. But then,

Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?

2002-11-23 Thread Thomas Zimmerman
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 13:33:29 + Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let me just say as a desktop user of Gentoo. I can use gentoo's X server and the opensouce nv driver here with kde and have a usable desktop. I couldn't in debian, it was just too slow. Yes, it's anticdotal. Yes,