Date: 12/31/69



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From: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
Subject: Re: Version Control Issues
Date: 7 Aug 1992 19:36:52 GMT

maniattb@cs.rpi.edu (Bill Maniatty) writes:
|How does the linux community decide just what is current?

Well, my three favourite methods are:

a) ask Linus (not advisable unless you can call him by phone, he often
   enough ignores mail :)
b) check dates on files on ftp sites
c) try to remember announcements on mailing lists and comp.os.linux

None of these are particularly good methods.

|For this to happen, users need to be able to get a stable version, and
|install it relatively easily.

I have addressed this issue in a separate posting. (No, I'm not going
to write another 180-line beast. :)