Submitted 24-Feb-02 by Fabrice FACORAT: > 2�/ another pb is debian development cycle. mdk is a distro that aims to > provide cutting edge packages. So if they want to do the same thing with > debian, they will have to rely on testing ( or maybe unstable ) what's > is not a very good thing. However cooker is a mix of unstable/testing > philosophy but msksoft control the progress. If they rely on debian at a > moment they will have to fork before releasing the distro and after come > back. This mean work to backport patchs and other things from this > branch to the common one
*This* is just senseless bashing of another distro. Debian "testing" is kept relatively stable[1] and on any given day, including the release day of a new Mandrake/Redhat/Suse distro is at least as up-to-date as the latest "stable" release of same. Mandrake wouldn't have to backport anything, because they wouldn't base their distro on Debian Stable, but on newer, more useable packages. Furthermore, they wouldn't have to stick to Debian's "stable" release schedule anymore than they currently stick to Redhat's. They aren't Redhat, and they have their own timetables. Mandrake merges some of Redhat's changes, and stays current with several packages that are of Redhat origin, but they do *not* fork from Redhat before releasing and backport patches after. Heck, the Mandrake "beta cycle" is little more than ironing out the wrinkles in Cooker and, if it's not done in the 3-4 weeks they have to do it, it *will* be released anyway. > 3�/ Will debian users/developers will be agree ? The point here wouldn't be whether Debian users/developers would agree. It's whether Mandrake users/developers would agree. And the answer is "not likely." [1] In well over 200 installs of Debian testing (aka Woody) in the last 6 months, I have run into fewer problems than I have with any of the last three stable releases of Mandrake. The vast majority of Debian users run "testing" as their day-to-day Linux in the same way you or I would run Mandrake. -- Anton Graham GPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. -- Mark Twain
