[TriLUG] question for the Debian folks

[Michael Alan Dorman]

"Greg Brown" <gregbrown at mindspring.com> writes:

> What is a "Debian Potato"?  Is it a small Debian distribution suitable for
> use in development of an embedded system or is it a specific Debian relase
> (like 1.2, 4.3, whatever).

"Potato" was the development codename for what became the Debian 2.1
release.  We use codenames during development because of an incident
many years ago where an overzealous CD manufacturer mistakenly pressed
a "Debian 1.0" cd simply because they saw a "1.0" directory---even
though it was still under development.

I *think* there is a either a sub-project or a separate effort using
Debian in embedded situations, but I'm not familiar with it and don't
have any pointers.

Mike.