On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 3/10/99 6:44:38 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > writes: > > > Are there Gnome 1.0 debs yet? > > > > I haven't tried Gnome yet. 1.0 seems like the place to start. > > > > Ya know, I don't want to offend any of the developers or anything, but I'm > curious about something... Why is it that Debian is always the last to get > packages for any given product? When KDE came out, rpms were right around the > corner. This seems to be an ongoing trend... Is it just because the Debian > group is so quality concious?
I don't really think that KDE is the best example. For quite a while, KDE wasn't packaged because of the licensing issues. Keep in mind that there is a whole staff of full time people working on Red Hat, while Debian developers are volunteering their scarce free time.