>>>>> "John" == John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
John> I posted this to debian-publicity a few days ago. But it John> doesn't look like there is much action there... John> Here is my translation of Joey's document into english . Feel John> free to edit it or use any part in an official release John> statement. Hmm... interesting. Do you think I should merge it with the release notes? I'd forward my reply to Joey as well, but I'm not sure which Joey you're talking about. John> Debian 2.1, code-named "slink", was released not only for Intel John> x86 based machines, but also for Alpha, Motorola 680x0, and John> SPARC based machines. The SPARC and Motorola distributions John> appear for the first time in this release. Incorrect -- the new arches were SPARC and Alpha. John> Debian is still based on the flexible .deb format. The powerful Why say "still" ? John> package manager ``dpkg'', allows easy installation, John> maintainence, and upgrading of packages. In particular, dpkg John> implements a carefully conceived method for handling John> dependencies and configuration. Packages from other Linux John> distributions can be installed via the ``alien'' program. [...] John> Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is delivered with the well tested and John> groomed kernel 2.0.36 . x86-centric. Some shipped with the 2.0.35 kernels, some 2.0.34, some with 2.2.1 (sparc sun4u only). [...] Overall, very interesting -- maybe in a week or so I'll merge it with my Release Notes. -- .....Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
