[ale] Debian 3.0 as a server platform?

[Jim Popovitch]

On Sat, 2005-06-04 at 13:22 -0400, James Sumners wrote:
> I won't even begin speculating on that one. Someone was probably just
> building it for, erm, testing purposes.

You are probably correct.  However, that just shows you the craziness
associated with having a version named "Testing"  ;-)  I do fully
understand the Debian distro, I just easily see all the things that
frustrate people and keep a sizable number from jumping on board.

One other thing.... so, if the contents of that directory was for
"testing purposes" what integrity is associated with the ISOs contained
therein?  Raylynn posted those URLs, surely with good intentions, but
the reality is those ISOs could contain wild/mild/broken things.  Who
really knows?  At least with RH (and presumably Suse, etc) you do see
very clean crisp archive structures, and verify file integrity across
mirrors is never a problem.

-Jim P.

> 
> On 6/4/05, Jim Popovitch <jimpop at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, 2005-06-04 at 13:06 -0400, James Sumners wrote:
> > > Sid will never be stable.
> > > It will always be unstable. Woody is the
> > > current stable, Sarge is the upcoming stable, and Etch will be the
> > > next testing. Sid will remain unstable.
> > 
> > My mistake (although one could say this is yet another Debian nuance),
> > Still what is Unstable doing in a cdimage-testing dir?  One would think
> > that cdimage-testing/ is where the Testing version is.
> > 
> > -Jim P.
> > 
> > > On 6/4/05, Jim Popovitch <jimpop at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > > On Sat, 2005-06-04 at 03:54 -0400, Raylynn Knight wrote:
> > > > > On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 20:41 -0400, James Sumners wrote:
> > > > > > If you find a pre-built Sparc image I would be surprised. The last
> > > > > > time I decided to play around and (try to) install Debian on a Sparc I
> > > > > > had to use a full CD.
> > > > > >
> > > > > Sarge image is available at
> > > > > http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/sparc/rc3/sarge-sparc-netinst.iso
> > > >
> > > > Thanks Raylynn,
> > > >
> > > > This shows some of the more interesting aspects of using Debian.
> > > > Currently "Testing" is Sarge.  So one would expect to find
> > > > sarge-sparc-netinst.iso in a cdimage-testing directory.  Also in that
> > > > cdimage-testing directory is a current(?) archive of Sid (Stable).
> > > > What's that doing in a cdrom-testing directory?  And why is Sid dated
> > > > 03-Jun-2005?
> > > >
> > > > I guess my point is this:  With Debian, things just aren't always clear
> > > > and well explained. ;-)
> > > >
> > > > -Jim P.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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