[GRLUG] Debian Etch 4.0 Released

[Michael Mol]

On 4/9/07, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:
> As long as Debian has enough developers
> to keep this approach going,  it looks like a go.
> If Debian's main contribution to the Linux
> movement is to provide a particularly bug
> free distribution,  it provides a real service of
> course.  You'd think it would be the mainstream
> version of Linux in that case,  but  far from it.
> Leading one to conclude that most people
> would rather suffer the ticks and pops than
> to not have the latest,  if not greatest,  features.
>
>     -Bob

And why not?  I switched from potato to woody so I could try out this
new "anti-aliasing" thing that had just been added to X.  I later
switched from woody to sarge so I could try out beagle.

In both cases, the features had received some degree of hype from LJ,
LM and Slashdot.

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:wq