Test -- Where have all the horses gone?

[Michael Hipp]

Net Llama! wrote:

> 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).

Well, that makes sense. Lots of that stuff would break .conf files and 
likely requiring a lot of manual intervention in a short time.

I'm starting to wonder what might happen to Debian. Seems like there is 
a steady stream of articles lately complaining about their ridiculously 
long release cycle. But even among Debian's critics, I know of no-one 
who doesn't hold the Debian project in high regard. I wonder if 
something like UserLinux or Ubuntu will eventually absorb Debian.

On the other hand, it seems like Fedora's stock in the community is 
increasing. The changes by RH made lots of people mad (me) but the 
Fedora project seems to be getting the job done.

Michael