Sarge (was Re: [Gllug] Strange download effect)

[Alain Williams]

On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 11:19:38AM +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote:
> On Friday 20 May 2005 10:25, Chris Bell wrote:
> >    That looks plausible, given the initial download rate each time. There
> > should be plenty of mirrors for Sarge once it is released, taking the load
> > off Phil.
> >
> 
> Is Sarge going to be shipping with the new graphical installer please? If so, 
> is it actually easier to install than the present one? The reason I ask is 
> that I'm considering moving over to debian as I'm getting rather fed up of 
> having to install a new OS every 6-7 months, and for it to be declared 
> obsolete and end-of-line every 18 months.

That seems to suggest that you are running fedora ...
Yes: that is a pain; I recently installed centos (http://www.centos.org/), this
is redhat enterprise with the logos removed & rebuilt. The nice thing is that
it seems to be maintained reasonably well (ie patches issued a few days after
redhat issues them). Thus it will be maintained for several years.

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Alain Williams
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