Test -- Where have all the horses gone?

[Herb DeLong]

I thought King David had Uriah killed on the front line, so he could have
Bathsheba.
Herb
----- Original Message -----
From: "Net Llama!" <netllama at linux-sxs.org>
To: "Linux tips and tricks" <linux-users at linux-sxs.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 12:58 PM
Subject: Re: Test -- Where have all the horses gone?


> 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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