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Gnome 2.6 Usability 報告和 OpenSync

Jul 21
2004

FreeSoftware

由 Jeff Waugh 的網站看到這 User Instinct 刊出了一份 Gnome 2.6 的 Usability 測試執告。

Freedesktop 新了個專案 OpenSync旨在架構一個同步化 framework 的標準。

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Debian Release Cycle

Jul 21
2004

Debian

It is said that Debian Release Cycle is the longest among those major GNU/Linux distros and the package in stable release is very old. Sometime ago, I collect the release date of debian and make a table.

Ver.	Name	Date	Period	Packages.	Developers	Features
1.1	Buzz	1996-06		474		2.0 kernel, fully ELF, dpkg
1.2	Rex	1996-12	6m	848	120
1.3	Bo	1997-07	7m	974	200
2.0	Hamm	1998-07	1y	1500+	400+
2.1	Slink	1999-03-09	8m	~2250		Add Alpha and sparc support
2.2	Potato	2000-08-15	1y 5m	3900+	450+	Add PowerPC & ARM
3.0	Woody	2002-07-19	1y11m	9000+	~1000	Add HP, PA-RISC, IA-64, MIPS, MIPS (DEC)
3.1	Sarge	2004-08?	2y

Surprised me that the release cycle is slowing down in recent releases because of the increasing of supporting architecture. Debian policy stated they will try to backport security fix rather update on stable release to confirm the while debian is as stable as possible. Therefore, it is better to compare the release cycle with Redhat Adv. Server (RHAS) and SuSE Enterprise Server. The release cycle of RHAS is around 12-18 month.

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