[Devil-linux-develop] Re: 0.6 and future releases

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Hi all,

I'm quite new on this ML, but not so much as a user (i've got 4 DL boxes 
running for more than a year, a 5th will be installed next week) so i 
consider 2 things :

    * for a security goal distro, it's not good to wait months until 
releasing a new version if there are important security holes in 
essential pakages such as ssl, ssh, freeswan ... maybe apache could wait 
a little more ( i don't want to make a troll, sorry if apache is a bad 
exemple for you).

    * on the other hand, it's not a good thing to hurry making a new 
release (of the devel branch) because there are some important security 
holes , having more risks to have a disfunction in something important 
(i remember pbs i had with cron, due to use of grsec patches ... on 
0.6b1 iso)

In other words, every reliable distro make updates for 2 branches : the 
stable and the devel in order to dissociate those 2 aspects. I 
understand you're not SuSE ! but what about the credibility of your 
distro if you begin to miss one of your goals ? Or maybe your next 
target is having best a more general lightweight than robust distro ;-)

(Please, don't be offended by my words, criticize you all is the last 
thing i have in mind ...  i barely speak english)

I mean i'd preffer having a monthly or so DL 5.x with updated security 
only packages, which i could burn, put in the cd drive of my boxes, 
reboot and be quiet

and same rythm for new functionnalities as thoses DL Boxes don't need to 
every morning.

I think someone really needing something not in the distro should 
download the devel environment and spend some time on it and contibute! 
I think Heiko (and/or other good developpers) is better to work on grsec 
patches , or libs for fwbuilder than on integration of webmin  (from my 
point of view only ...) as He  is  competent on such serious job; let 
others less experienced (like me) work on less important things .

As Friedrich, i'm questionning about where you want to go.

Best Regards