Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 15 May 1996 21:33:29 -0700 (PDT) | From | David Flood <> | Subject | Re: Plea. . . |
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On Wed, 15 May 1996, Aaron Tiensivu wrote:
> Now that pre-2.0 is upon us, I hope that everyone is not in a frenzy to rush to > get 2.0 out the door in the next couple of days.. with the amount of bug > reports lately, it's pretty obvious we are not at the "rock-solid stable" > level..
I glad that someone else also thinks this.
> > If a Linux 2.0 goes out the door, chock full of bugs, it will mean bad press > and PR.. > > Also, I think some sort of ftp site should be set-up to hold all the > "essential" things for 2.0... especially the 'victim-list' type files...sure, > you could say, "All of it is on sunsite", but that is not always true..
It wouldn't have to be a ftp site, it could be a TEXT only web site with ftp links to the correct locations. And if it was organized by kernel version number then a lot of the 'upgrade to version xx.yy' mesages would be fixed. having > things like: > > hdparm-2.9.tar.gz > gpm-1.09.tar.gz > libc-5.3.12.tar.gz > linux-2.00.tar.gz > modules-1.3.69k.tar.gz > procps-1.00.tar.gz [I hope 0.99a gets updated before then] > > All in one directory would be such a nice thing to have.. having to hunt down > everything in odd-ball places will make users go, "Sheesh, it's not worth all > the effort" > > Just food for thought.. please be gentle, I'm not here to stir trouble.. :) > > Danke... > > > > > > >
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