<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.10.2"> </HEAD> <BODY> I am well aware of the need for the latest and the greatest, I am one for always wanting the latest versions. I was hoping that Dapper LTS would be a little different, in that it would combine the latest and greatest but also ensure it all worked really well. Therefore I would have an excellent stable distro (Dapper) for server applications and then could use the latest Ubuntu that would be even more bleeding edge (as in Edgy) for desktop stuff. I just feel that only now Dapper has reached some degree of maturity and just today I completed another kernel upgrade that required ANOTHER reboot. I have a feeling of deja vu (M$). Apart from other things the server install CD and Live CD installer appear broken for a huge number of people. Re-releasing all the CDs with the latest packages and perhaps fixing up the Live and Server CDs a little would be a fantastic move for Dapper. This at least would save me running a debmirror of ~600mb just for dapper-security and dapper-updates for the times when I will install on non-networked computers. On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 10:59 +0200, Ouattara Aziz wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> > 2006/7/19, Ouattara Aziz <<A HREF="mailto:wattazoum@gmail.com">wattazoum@gmail.com</A>>: >> I don't think it would change anything. Putting the release schedule >> longer doesn't mean the distro will be debugged longer. even in a six >> month release schedule, having 3 month of setting things up and 3 of >> debugging would have a nice effect concerning bug. > > I don't think anything will reduce the bugcount significantly prior to > release if one of the objectives the users want is the latest > software. I've seen Mandriva switch from a 6 months to a 1 year > release schedule, and they still have problems because they include > the latest and greatest and it's buggy-on-release. And if they didn't, > everyone would suddenly scream "oh, that's sooo last century. Pfft! > Gnome 2.(N-1)? OOLD!" I hesitated giving the example of Mandriva :p . You're absolutely right. There is a choice to make. Do you want extremely stable distribution or do you want latest features/packages ? The two are not really compatible . That's why people used to use Debian Stable as a server but for myself, using it as a Desktop dist would just piss me off. ___________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Mail réinvente le mail ! Découvrez le nouveau Yahoo! Mail et son interface révolutionnaire. <A HREF="http://fr.mail.yahoo.com">http://fr.mail.yahoo.com</A> </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> </BODY> </HTML>