Re: The nature of unstable (was: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!)
Steve Greenland wrote:
> There is nothing stopping anyone from making snapshot releases of
> unstable. Mirror the archive. Burn a CD. Done. That's what a snapshot
> is.
As one of the many people who does not have cheap, fast, reliable
internet access, I would like to say that for me to mirror 650 MB
of debian and burn a CD of it would cost around $130 in charges
and 2 and a half days of straight downloading if I was lucky.
Probably much longer.
So I'd like snapshots, but really I run stable run until the
moment frozen becomes stable at which I can get a CD on which
everything has a good chance of working, because if anything
breaks I'm pretty much stuffed.
--
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@cupid.suninternet.com>
Trust the computer industry to shorten "Year 2000" to Y2K.
It was this kind of thinking that caused the problem in the first place.
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