Future of Ac... or even of PLD

[Arkadiusz Miskiewicz]

On Thursday 22 of March 2007, Marcin Król wrote:
> > If we are to make a big change in our distros lifecycle let's make it in
> > th. I already has all the things You want to get into AC and has more
> > human-power to make the transition possible in sane time.
>
> Before Th will be usable on production systems Ac will be dead with lots
> of security holes. 

Most of my production servers are controlled by Ac. Newest one (for PLD) are 
running Th from day one. I have no plans of switching working production 
servers from Ac to Th (If ain't broken don't fix).

I'm mainly interested in doing security fixes for AC.  I'm not interested in 
doing major software upgrades in AC-branch myself though I'll be happy to see 
others interest in that. For workstations I simply use Th for a year already.

btw,
What I really miss is *single* good source of informations about security 
holes in Linux software - such one that could be coupled together with cvs to 
inform about brokeness in software which we have on HEAD and AC-branch.

> When we will decide for Th as source for
> next PLD milestone some people (count me here) may be forced to change
> distro or to start their own PLD fork.

I hope that fork is a joke. I don't see any benefit from a fork in comparison 
to simply working on AC-branch.

> I want to focus on stability, not 
> "newest hotest stuff", thus I don't like Th with its problematic gcc 4.2.

I regret that Th switched to gcc 4.2 so early but at this moment I don't 
consider switching back to gcc 4.1 (note that gcc 4.2 rc1 (more beta than rc) 
was recently released and we already using it + most of the problems is in 
software, not in gcc itself).

Note that Th is no longer (well, for a few months) tracking latest available 
stuff. The goal is to keep it fresh but with stable releases (yes, there are 
some exceptions). What Th needs is some polishing, kernel and installer.

> M.

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Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz        PLD/Linux Team
arekm / maven.pl            http://ftp.pld-linux.org/