>>It would be a good idea to see if a new, quicker development cycle or >>paradigm could be started after 1.1. Or at least one that looks quicker >>-- in the competition of the hears of Linuxers, looks, feel, and hearsay >>are about the most important weapons.
Do you have any suggestions as to how to do this? A common problem seems to be that many of the developers are very short of time. >FWIW, I don't mind the apparently slower pace of Debian development. >What I *really* like about Debian is how well thought out it is and >how solid it is. If you sacrifice quality for getting things out the >door faster, then one of my main reasons for having switched to >Debian disappears. Perhaps the public relations efforts should >stress this part of the picture. I agree with this; a lot of stuff in the Linux world does progress very rapidly, but the way Debian works gives me (at least) a bit more confidence that I can install something and have it just work. (Try doing that with a bleeding-edge kernel...) -- Richard Kettlewell http://www.elmail.co.uk/staff/richard/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
