Certainly as a longstanding kibitzer on this list, it is none of my business. However, I would like nevertheless to point out the following, relevent to recent suggestions that the list splinter into two or more offspring:
Over approximately a 12 hour period today, I received debian-user digests containing approximately the following balance of postings: Discussion of debian administrative matters, etc.: 60 posts. Help requests, and responses: 44 posts. The discussions have been lively and interesting, by the way. Flames were (needlessly) thrown. Parenthetically, I am still confused by the fact that Debian has it's own way with kernel sources and headers, as well as sources for packaged modules. I still use Debian; and I still want a system upon which I can install unix programs of many kinds. I do appreciate, and have come to rely upon the ease of installing Debian packages; I would appreciate help learning how to become less dependent. [Meaning not that I might want personal advice, but rather that I would appreciate the availability of documentation and a system conforming to some global standards (isn't that pretty much what *nix is about?)]. The Debian watchword has been from early on, a system that can be painlessly upgraded. At least twice, this watchword has failed---when a.out moved over to ELF, and when libc5 moved over to libc6. In between these big changes, have been an endless stream of smaller changes. The friday snapshot is a good idea. It's all none of my business. Alan Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .