Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 24 Jun 1996 00:23:26 +0000 | From | hab <> | Subject | No Distribution is 2.0.0 Current |
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In my opinion no Distribution is Linux 2.0.0 current. To me to be 2.0.0 current all free packages must be compiled against the Linux 2.0.0 source tree, with the same libc or later than the developers use. It must also include the kernel support utilities that have been patched to work with 2.0.0 and all support tools need to be updated to support all the standard features of 2.0.0.
Some have responded to my challenge of RedHat where I complained about some nits. I really wasn't expecting RedHat to meet my currency requirement it is to strict for a June Release. My opinion is that no distribution should claim to be 2.0.0 current until the iterative process of fix test refix progressively up the chain of applications has a chance to occur. I think the earliest resonable release would be in August. I think those of us on this channel who encourage any other belief are doing ourselves a disfavor as we are asking to be bombarded with questions of why doesn't this work.
To all those who suggested Debian 1.1, It may not require replacement packages to work (I don't know how well) with 2.0.0 but it definately doesn't meet my definition of current. Some of the packages I checked were even older than the RedHat comparables. For example Modutils and PCMCIA.
I personally would like to know what versions of Libc, ppp, Modutils, PCMCIA, sound ... the developers of those packages would consider the correct release to go with Linux 2.0.0, and so on up the application tree. I assume those developers moniter this channel since the kernel is the root of all evil. This is a more strigent definition than the requirements for the compilation of the kernel. It is however, I believe the correct criteria for a distribution current with Linux 2.0.0 and it may even require patching 2.0.0 to make it Happen.
Please do not call any distribution Current yet. Yes some can support the compilation of 2.0.0. But I know all of them require upgrading to be current with the system I currently run. Libc-5.3.12 for example.
Hubert Bahr,
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