[wplug] Was: Tried several distro's.  Now: Debian HELP

Michael E Uhl meu102 at attbi.com
Sat Apr 12 11:27:33 EDT 2003


> Not all latest and greatest software is considered fashionable and
> broken, some of us run later versions of software for feature that are
> not available in current what's considered "debian" stable.

I agree debian stable has some fairly old software, that's why I run
debian testing. While it may not include the latest and greatest
versions of a lot of packages, it includes newer versions than stable
does and still results in a reasonably stable system.  If you want the
latest version of a software package, like gaim for instance, compile it
yourself.  It's all a matter of personal opinion: you can start with a
system that has the latest (and perhaps unstable) version of almost all
packages (i.e. Red Hat) or you can start with a system that has older
(and probably more stable) versions of most packages and add newer
versions of the particular packages that you need.

that's my two cents...
-michael




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