I am a slackware user and I've been following this discussion fairly closely. As we all know, the major problem with slackware is upgrading from one release to the next.
Slackware is extremely stable and it comes, "ready to run", right out of the box. However, it is a major pain in the arse to upgrade from x.y to x.y+1. You never know what to replace and so you end up replacing the whole darn thing. When I read the debian release, I became very excited because I thought the following was true: You would have a stable release which could be upgraded from x.y to x.y+1 _without_ major upheavals. What I have been witnessing on this list is very similar to the way slackware operates. Not good! Please, have a stable release, and an update site. Update the stable release say, every six months. In the interim, let the packages pile up at the update site where the rest of us can ignore them. However, don't forget your promise ... give us a way to get from y to y+1 without re-installing. If you can't figure out a way to do this, I would imagine the bulk of us will stay with slackware. Why change? Gary ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://rattler.cameron.edu/gary.html [EMAIL PROTECTED]
