On Sat, 2007-09-15 at 08:54, Michael Banck wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 04:31:51PM -0500, R. Steven Rainwater wrote: > > With most distros, the releases drive the development. No releases == no > > development. So I think we need to plan a GNU System v0.3 release. And > > >from what I've seen of v0.0 and v0.2, it should be pretty easy to make > > some significant improvements over those without too much work. > > GNU 0.3 has to be at least on par with the bumpiest GNU/Linux > distributions out there a couple of years. "But GNU 0.2 was even worse" > isn't going to be accepted as excuse.
The 0.0 and 0.2 releases were pre-alpha developement releases as 0.3 is likely to be. Expecting an alpha release intended for developers to be anywhere close to a modern production-quality GNU/Linux distro that's had hundreds of people working on it for 10+ years seems a bit unrealistic to me. A more realistic view might be to say that the GNU System v1.0 needs to be at least on par with the v1.0 release of a typical GNU/Linux distro (e.g. the 1993 release of Slackware v1.0 or the 1995 release of RedHat Linux v1.0). But it sounds like we're both agreed that a lot of work is needed on the GNU System to get where we need to go. -Steve
