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Re: A case study of a new user turned off debian



Steve Greenland wrote:
On 03-Nov-03, 14:21 (CST), Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com> wrote:
<insert usual rant on how useless stable is for desktop and how testing is even worse than unstable>


Oh, not this crap again. Or perhaps you're contending that I've not
gotten anything done at work in the last two years using my "useless"
Debian stable desktop.

Hint: there's more to "useful" than running the latest version of
everything. Particularly for a sys admin, who I'd expect to be heavily
command line oriented, and who doesn't need the latest 3-d games or dvd
player[1].

Okay, I am running Adrian Bunk's backport of Galeon/Mozilla (thanks,
Adrian). But that's it.

Oh, not this crap again. Or perhaps you're contending that what is usefull for you is usefull for everybody.

Hint: there's more to "useful" than old version of software in early stages of development. Lot of desktop oriented apps are changing fast and older version are fairly poor (functionality, stability etc.) - open office, mozilla (and other browsers), kde, gnome etc. Lot of new HW has a better chance to be (better) supported on newer system (are new kernels available for stable?)

	erik



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