Hi there! I recently wrote on <http://www.linux-community.de/> a summary about the prospective release date and the features of woody (german language). During writing and reading some of the comments there some issues were raised that are useful to keep in mind when writing the release information and maybe add to the release page, too.
First of all we should mention that we also release KDE with woody. Thats one of the things the users always asked for - we really should mention that. Another big thing that users always waited for is a replacement for dselect. There's now aptitude which is IMO fabulous, deity and lots of others. Also worth mentioning somehow. Next: If we can manage to produce official CD-Images that feature PGI[1] this is also a thing we shouldn't keep secret. I just burned my first pgi-cd today to test it but I guess it should be a great enhancement to the still perfect debian-installer; but users request more often graphical things (don't ask me why, maybe because they *look* more modern beside being it...). A question that raised in the thread following my posting there were about gcc 3.0 that is mentioned on the release page (and I mentioned in my writing there): Someone raised the accuses that using gcc 3.0 would produce the same problems like the 2.96 in RH did (binary incompatibility). I answered that gcc 3.0 is used only on the new architectures that need it foor 2.95 doesn't help there (I hope I didn't say something stupid? I'm not too deep into that part). But I guess this might also be an issue to mention that gcc-3.0 is only default on such architectures that wouldn't work otherwise and the others still have gcc 2.95 in the gcc package. At least it showed that some people care about it, it should be written down somewhere to not confuse too many people. I guess that's it so far, I'm not sure what joey really wanted me to mail about to debian-press but I guess he'll make it clear again (might be that I just forgot what he (not) did mention). Joey, the Cc: is because of this, can you clearify your wish to me (again)? HTH & HAND, Alfie [1] <http://packages.debian.org/pgi> P.S.: I still vote for ``jessie'' for the next release codename ,-P -- Wo wir schon bei Schnäppchenbestrafungen sind: ich finde § 307 StGB hat ein recht ordentliches Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis. Soviel Bums für sowenig Strafe gibt sonst nirgendwo. -- Holger Lembke in de.soc.recht.misc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
