On Sunday 30 October 2005 07:39, Attila wrote: > Am Freitag, 28. Oktober 2005 23:59 hackte j l in die Tastatur: > > What is urgent is a 7.1 base CD, with a 2.6.13 or 14 > > kernel because 7.0 talks about devfs, and that makes > > roadkill easy with the upgrade that follows. It will > > be a lot better for new to Archers if there is a 7.1 > > base CD without devfs, and with gcc 4 and the libs all > > in one bundle. > > I think the same. I don't see it as a problem that after i install arch i > have to upgrade to the newer versions. This happens to every distribution > what i know and arch can handle it in a fantastic way. > > But this installing with devfs and upgrading to a no devfs system makes it > for new user needlessly complicated. And in the worst case this people stop > using arch because the system won't boot. But perhaps they will like arch > in the same way as everybody of us here ... but only if it works for the > first time. So if there is time for making a install cd without devfs this > would be faire toward a new user. > > See you, Attila > > I agree with the above. We aren't promoting Arch until the next CD comes out because of the devfs issues.
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