Test -- Where have all the horses gone?

[Net Llama!]

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Michael Hipp wrote:
> Net Llama! wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Michael Hipp wrote:
>
> >>(Your comments and the recent announcement about VA/Sourceforge going
> >>FC2 from Debian has got me pondering again.)
> >
> >
> > AFAIK, its just sf.net that is moving to Fedora from Debian.  I suppose i
> > should ask Uriah (the sr sysadmin for sf.net) why they made the switch,
> > cause i know he used to be a pretty hardcore debian guy.
>
> It would be informative to hear about the thought process behind the
> switch as I'm sure it wasn't made lightly. The news blurb I read a
> couple of weeks ago really didn't say much.

OK, i talked to uriah.  In a nutshell they got sick of waiting for debian
to do a major release, and they needed a distro that released early &
often & predictably.  The problem with waiting for debian is that when
they did release, since it was so long since the last major release, a ton
of stuff on the servers were broken (there were 3 glibc changes, at least
2 gcc changes, and massive amounts of other 'lesser' changes).

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