This is a draft.
I've written a document which touches on what I feel are important
meta-policy issues. It's a little bit of history, a little bit of
speculation, and a bit of an essay on how I think of debian.
I'm sure other people have different ideas. I hope none of what
I've written makes
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually, when Debian was formed it had only one developer,
and no one could contribute packages, since that would have diluted
the distributions tight integration. This bazaar thing has evolved.
My memory doesn't extend back that far, nor
On Tue, May 05, 1998 at 12:10:54AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Actually, when Debian was formed it had only one developer,
and no one could contribute packages, since that would have diluted
the distributions tight integration. This bazaar thing has evolved.
I remember Debian 0.04.
This is a draft.
I've written a document which touches on what I feel are important
meta-policy issues. It's a little bit of history, a little bit of
speculation, and a bit of an essay on how I think of debian.
I'm sure other people have different ideas. I hope none of what
I've
Buddha Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Reading your draft, I see discussion of the importance of the goals,
but not the importance of the standards -- or at least, not in as many
words.
Fair enough.
Do you think the small change you recommended satisfy this need? Or are
you asking for some
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I remember Debian 0.04. Basically, it was what we'd nowadays term base +
bootfloppies - an minimalistic base system on which to build the
distribution. Even then, mailing lists were central to development, and
development was a group effort.
That was
You may find the first section of the Introduction to The Debian Linux
User's Guide (found at www.linuxpress.com) of some interest. It is titled
History, and was, for the most part, written by Ian Murdoch, so you can
trust its accuracy. ;-)
Luck,
On Tue, 5 May 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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