Re: [SLUG] Debian schedule

[Matthew Dalton <matthewd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Herbert Xu wrote:
> 
> Rodos <rodos@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I am going to give Debian a try and was wondering if there was a new
> > version out soon. The current seams to be 2.2 Beta R2 Potato. I will get
> > it if there is not going to be another one in the next few months.
> 
> Actually we'll be starting the third test cycle as soon as the boot floppies
> make it into the archive.  And if that all goes well, potato (Debian 2.2)
> will be out in two or three weeks.  But you can start installing it now
> because the difference between what we've got and the real release is likely
> to be very small.

I installed potato on my machine last week. Actually I'm still
installing it, because I did the whole thing over the net with a 33.6
modem connection :) . I think I've downloaded, besides the ~25Mb
required for the base installation, about 160Mb of packages so far (yes,
I used mirror.aarnet.edu.au). That was about 3 overnight sessions of
downloading.

Pretty impressive so far. No major installation problems. I've reported
one bug - the gpm package was not on the ftp site, but was in the
Packages.gz file so apt-get was trying to download it. I don't use gpm
anyway, so it didn't affect me much. You might be able to get away with
installing the one from slink if you do need it.

Matthew
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