Nick Busigin: > 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.
Indeed. This is why I said that it needs to look faster. It has to be faster -- people have been waiting for a current Debian release for months or years! -- but I suspect that after everything is ELF, things will be simpler to keep up to date.

