Debian 2.2r3...what's new?

[Bully_Crist]

hmmm...I'm thinking of taking a look at it... but I want to know what's been changed in it...

that is, if they've simplified the install process a little bit...

[demian]

New compared to 2.2r2? Mainly security updates. Most notably perhaps 2.2.19 kernel. Here's a link (http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/) to the release notes.
Simplified installation?? Uhmm no. That's certainly not the major concern for point releases.
Have you considered progeny (http://www.progeny.com) as an option for an easy to install debian distro?

[Bully_Crist]

yea, I've considered Progeny Debian... I've even downloaded the ISOs... but the ones off of the HTTP server were corrupt for some unknown reason (I renamed them to .iso)...is there an FTP server I can use, or what?

[Cruiserman]

I did an ftp install once i did the reiserfs format. Then I did an apt-get update with progeny added. After all that work, x was broken. :mad: F**K!!! And im not the only one who had this same problem. Well, Mandrake 8.0 is out and it works just fine and i didnt have to do any funky pre install with boot disks to get a journaling fs. Thats my 2 cents any way.

[Bully_Crist]

yea, I know what you mean...

however, I strongly advise against using a redhat based system...I've had nothing but bad experiences with redhat and mandrake's package management systems (install a package for an old distro or a newer one, and yer f**ked)... Debian...I mean, it's ok, but it seems so...I dunno...the installer is tough to figure out, the included software in their stable release blows goats (I don't like having to update 40-50 megs of software to stay 'current'), and all the debian based distros kinda suck ***... I tried out FreeBSD 4.2 stable, and it's nice, but...getting X to work the first time...***ARRRGH***...I hate having to reinstall the entire damned thing 6-7 times to perform trial-and-error tests with X... I'm going to try out Slackware 7.1...I know the included software is a lil dated, but it does sound like it would be easier to just update everything from source (not to mention downgrading...an option that doesn't seem to exist within Debian)...Slack just seems...I dunno...like everything I ever wanted from a distro (in short, it seems to have the least amount of crap I don't want)... *shrug* :rolleyes:

[Craig McPherson]

In the Revision versions (2.2r1, 2.2r2, etc), the only thing that's changed are security fixes and Y2K fixes. Debian policy doesn't allow new stuff to be added, new versions of stuff to be included except to fix security problems, or any other changes except for security updates (of which there have been a decent number lately...) and Y2K bugfix updates (of which there've been hardly any lately, for some reason). The kernel may be allowed to be changed to a new version, I'm not sure, but other than the aforementioned, nothing is allowed to change between revisions.

You get the same thing by pointing your sources.list at security.debian.org and applying the security updates. The revisions are just so that new users won't be installing software with a lot of known security problems, because they might not know to upgrade from the security site.