Re: Why AS
David Mihm (davemann@ionet.net)
Thu, 12 Aug 1999 16:03:08 -0500 (CDT)
On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Kurt Fitzner wrote:
>I think it would be a wise move to slap a 'stable' sticker on a version
>(any version) of Afterstep that has GNOME support.
>
>Any relateively recent 1.7.x version of Afterstep is a helluva (!) lot more
>stable than some of the experimental stuff Linus/Alan have stuffed in the
>kernal and called 'stable' in the 2.2.x kernel series (2.2.8 was a disaster).
>In light of this, the minor problems in 1.7.X couldn't possibly cause too
>much grief, and the benifets of getting on GNOME's list of
>compliant/partially compiant window managers would be a great boost, I'd
>think.
A general statement on this front. Gnome is not at a stable
release, Window Maker is not at a stable release, etc etc. There are many
things that are not at a point of stable release, and people use them all
the time. If a sys admin is mandated to run a stable simply because it's
stable, then s/he can surely fool the fool who thinks just because it has
a "stable" sticker on it, makes it stable. This is all semantics, and
while is good discourse, certainly proves no point. :)
[ this is in no way directed at the author who is cited here, but
simply a statemnet in lines with his ]
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