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On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 04:41:09PM -0400, David Grove wrote: > My information on this comes from discussion (asking directly) in undernet > #linux. If this is in error, tell it to them. An IRC channel, in ERROR?! On Undernet no less?! THE DEUCE YOU SAY!! ;) Next thing you're going to tell me the commentary on Slashdot isn't totally impartial! > > Debian? They're not commercial, but they're still a pretty big OS distro; > > What? You mean they're actually accepting it a year and a half later in a > testing version? Debian is historically slow to release 'stable' distributions. The current 'testing' branch has been going on for quite some time. > FreeBSD comes to mind, among others. FreeBSD is also historically *very* slow about upgrading perl. They were one of the last hold-outs to upgrading /usr/bin/perl from perl4. Please stop. -- Michael G. Schwern <schwern@pobox.com> http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl6 Quality Assurance <perl-qa@perl.org> Kwalitee Is Job One <purl> Hey, Schwern! THERE IS A HUGE GAZORGANSPLATTEDFARTMONGERING- LIGHTENINGBEASTASAURSOPOD BEHIND YOU! RUN, BEFORE IT GAFLUMMOXES YOUR INNARDLYBITS!Thread Previous | Thread Next