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A Debriefing On Debian's Woody Release 17

Posted by timothy on Monday July 29, 2002 @08:45AM from the freedom-of-information dept.

solferino writes: "Anthony Towns has posted a fairly detailed 'retrospective' on the release of woody and an 'introspective' on the future release of sarge." This is a long, informative read for anyone interested in how the complicated Debian release process plays out behind the scenes. ("Grep for 'realistic schedule'. Doh.")

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Must.... release.... faster..... (Score:1)

by Captain Pedantic ( 531610 ) writes:

The same thing they said two years ago after Potato was released. Ho hum.

Still, nothing beats it, and I'm running a standard release for the first time in, um, two years.
Comments about boot floppies are now obsolete (Score:2, Interesting)

by psgalbraith ( 200580 ) writes:

debian-installer is not only the official way to boot for sarge, but boot-floppies are declared dead:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2002/debian -project-200207/msg00094.html [debian.org]
- boot floppy reinvention.. yet again? (Score:2)
  
  by cpeterso ( 19082 ) writes:
  
  Why does Debian completely rewrite their installer and boot floppies for each release? They can't seem to choose a design they can stick with. Both Woody and Potato suffered from buggy boot floppies that were delivered WAY past schedule, delaying the entire Debian release..
DVD Version of Woody (Score:3, Funny)

by Some guy named Chris ( 9720 ) writes: on Monday July 29, 2002 @06:04PM (#3974521) Journal

I downloaded the DVD version, but when I tried to play it in my DVD player, all I got was Richard Stallman on my TV yelling "It's GNU /Linux!".

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Hehe... woody... release.... (Score:1)

by jzarzosa ( 584990 ) writes:

Sorry, don't mean to sound like a 10 year old, but you gotta admit the naming convention is quite funny ;)
Why so few posts? (Score:1)

by Paul Bain ( 9907 ) writes:

&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp I am amazed at the paucity of posts relating to this story. I thought that there were many thousands of Debian users on Slashdot. And I thought that nearly everyone would have an opinion on why Woody was delayed so. Am I wrong?
- Re:Why so few posts? (Score:1)
  
  by HP LoveJet ( 8592 ) writes:
  
  I think it's because this is a Red-Headed Stepchild story that got posted to dev.s.o but never made it to the front page.
- Re:Why so few posts? (Score:1)
  
  by MessageDrivenBean ( 534518 ) writes:
  
  It doesn't really matter, since you could have been running Woody from the day Potato was freezed anyway. I have.

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