Debian slow to release (was: Novell to acquire Suse)

[Paul Lussier]

In a message dated: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 10:50:23 EST
"Ken D'Ambrosio" said:

> I have a local Debian repository I rsync nightly -- which allows for
> _really_ fast net installs -- and so forth and so on.  Will it bake
> brownies for me?  No.  Is it the easiest to install, or the best at
> hardware detection?  Not even close.  What it is, however, is a
> dream to maintain, patch, upgrade, add software to, etc.

Ken, you ought to check out FAI.  with a local Debian mirror, a DHCP
server, and PXE enabled NICs, you can have a *customizable* net
install that's _really_ fast.  You could, in theory, even install a
brownie-baking config :)


Seeya,
Paul
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