Re: question about historical GNU System releases

[R. Steven Rainwater]

On Sat, 2007-09-15 at 08:54, Michael Banck wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 04:31:51PM -0500, R. Steven Rainwater wrote:
> > With most distros, the releases drive the development. No releases == no
> > development. So I think we need to plan a GNU System v0.3 release. And
> > >from what I've seen of v0.0 and v0.2, it should be pretty easy to make
> > some significant improvements over those without too much work. 
> 
> GNU 0.3 has to be at least on par with the bumpiest GNU/Linux
> distributions out there a couple of years.  "But GNU 0.2 was even worse"
> isn't going to be accepted as excuse.

The 0.0 and 0.2 releases were pre-alpha developement releases as 0.3 is
likely to be. Expecting an alpha release intended for developers to be
anywhere close to a modern production-quality GNU/Linux distro that's
had hundreds of people working on it for 10+ years seems a bit
unrealistic to me.

A more realistic view might be to say that the GNU System v1.0 needs to
be at least on par with the v1.0 release of a typical GNU/Linux distro
(e.g. the 1993 release of Slackware v1.0 or the 1995 release of RedHat
Linux v1.0).

But it sounds like we're both agreed that a lot of work is needed on the
GNU System to get where we need to go. 

-Steve