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A Debriefing On Debian's Woody Release

Posted by timothy on from the freedom-of-information dept.

solferino writes: "Anthony Towns has posted a fairly detailed 'retrospective' on the release of woody and an 'introspective' on the future release of sarge." This is a long, informative read for anyone interested in how the complicated Debian release process plays out behind the scenes. ("Grep for 'realistic schedule'. Doh.")

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  1. Comments about boot floppies are now obsolete by psgalbraith · · Score: 2, Interesting

    debian-installer is not only the official way to boot for sarge, but boot-floppies are declared dead:

    http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2002/debian -project-200207/msg00094.html