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Interview with Ian Jackson
Figuring you can never get too much Ian Jackson, Trevelyan writes: "Debian Planet has an
interview with the long time Debian maintainer, and a former DPL, a current member of the
technical committee and the author of
dpkg.
Also
announced Debian GNU/Linux 2.2r7 released. In case some of you thought Debian won't be releasing anything this year =)"
Its current (stable) distro has the oldest Linux software of any of the major distributions. If they do not release a 3.0 stable soon, they will most likely go the way of other dearly departed Linux Distributions, such as SLS (Steve's Linux System), and Yggdrasil.
Lots of current Debian users have all ready moved on to Gentoo. And while it is a fairly nice setup, I will continue to enjoy my uncrackable OpenBSD install. There's a reason they're going on 5 years without a remote hack.
'sup with that session-id? Shouldn't you strip it from the link...
Huh?
Potato was released in 2000, not in 1999, and can be upgraded through apt and security.debian.org (which downloads only security patches). Or, you can get the recently released r7 iso and update from there. You could argue ofcourse that software released in 2000 was written in 1999, so I'll give you half a point here.
Woody, which isn't released yet, can be upgraded from most mirrors by selecting the woody/updates branch, which covers security updates and some general updates. No points here.
Sid, which also isn't released yet, doesn't need anything special. Just following the regular branch will download the most recent packages with security fixes (normally just as fast as the other distro's) Seems like you forgot to mention sid.
You can say that debian sucks, but at least use wholly valid arguments.