On Wed, 08 Sep 2004 17:58:34 -0400, Bryan J. Smith <b.j.smith@ieee.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 17:52, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> > I haven't kept up with 3.0 (Sarge),
>
> Doh! That'll teach me. 3.0 is "Woody." I knew that -- Doh! -- it was
> "Testing" the last time I used it (circa 2002).
>
> As such, is "Sarge" considered "3.1" and largely ABI compatible with
> "Woody" (GCC, GLibC, Kernel), including Kernel 2.4? Or is "Sarge" more
> of a "4.0" release (which is what Xandros refers to it as, 4.0), and
> built around kernel 2.6?
>
> I assumed (possibly wrongly) that "Sid" where a lot of kernel 2.6
> adoption is taking place? Or, again, is that "Sarge"?
According to what I been told. Sid is the name given to the
completely bleeding edge unstable tree. And it will always remain
named sid. While other unstable releases like sarge will go through
the normal cycle of being unstable then rc builds then final stable
build.
> I'm really about 1.5 years outta-date from Debian. That's just sad
> because I was on the maintainers list at one time (releasing WLAN
> drivers). I just never seem to have left my Red Hat preference.
>
> It's best to know the two most popular "bases" out there, and one is
> definitely Debian -- especially with all the Fedora confusion going on.
> My apologies if I offended any Debian users, but I'm a major, if only
> "closet" at this time, Debian proponent.
>
> --
> Compatibility and update matrix of Red Hat(R) distributions:
> http://www.vaporwarelabs.com/files/temp/RH-Distribution-FAQ-3.html
> http://www.vaporwarelabs.com/files/temp/RH-Distribution-FAQ-4.html
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