In article <1992Aug5.163440.27332@klaava.Helsinki.FI> wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius) writes:
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>No.  Linux currently lacks networking, and in any case it is not stable
>enough for many people.  Basically, unless you know how to apply
>patches, hack the kernel and otherwise like to do things the hard way,
>you might want to wait for a more stable kernel.

By the way, have there been any plans about a v1.0 release that
would be the "real" Linux for some time? I mean, currently there
seem to be several competetive software-collections, and also
the kernel gets updated nearly every other day, and an old
DOS-user like me gets annoyed when you have to "ps U" etc.
and recompile all the time :-)

Maybe it's good to have plenty of choice, but what's also 
annoying is that the ftp-sites contain a lot of old and
useless software, and it's hard to tell what is meant to be
used with the current kernel...

So what I mean is that since everyone always wants to get the 
latest kernel whenever one is released, and a new kernel always
brings some trouble, kernels shouldn't be released too frequently 
after 1.0. Maybe this is what Linus has planned, I don't know..

Also I hope that if 1.0 becomes the main release for some time,
old and useless stuff could be deleted or archived to some special
directory on ftp-sites.

(Just my two cents worth...)

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