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- From: mfp+@CS.CMU.EDU (Michael Polis)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: SLS: Additional problem & questions.
- Message-ID: <C1F5EF.4M1.2@cs.cmu.edu>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 16:49:09 GMT
- Article-I.D.: cs.C1F5EF.4M1.2
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- In article <1993Jan22.200436.7161@wuecl.wustl.edu>, ask1@cec2.wustl.edu (Andrew Scott Koransky) writes:
- |> Peter "SLS" MacDonald writes:
- |> >>Also, some remarks for Peter. First of all, great work! I can't imagine
- |> >>the amount of time you spent getting all this together so nicely. Second, a
- |> >>suggestion: Is it possible for someone or a group to test SLS releases so
- |> >>that the bugs may be eliminated by the time the new release gets to the
- |> >>public? It may cause some delays, but I think it would be well worth the
- |> >>wait. Perhaps a "beta" SLS release?
- |> >>Anyhow, keep up the good work!
- |> >
- |> >I do. You are that group :-). Seriously, when I announce an upgrade, I
- |> >expect people to respect it and wait a week unless you are intrepid
- |> >(or just a good samaritan).
- |>
- |> This is fine, but I believe this should be announced somewhere in the readme
- |> maybe and when it is stable enough, modify the readme or something like
- |> that... just so we know. The main problem here is simple communication.
- |> Newbies to Linux SLS are downloading it unaware that a new "buggy" SLS has
- |> been uploaded and suffer for it.
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- Yes, you should put something like this in the README:
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- This is the SLS Linux distribution, v 1.0, uploaded January 18, 1993.
- New users should wait about a week until the release has been checked
- for bugs.
-