Re: ISO For Recent Debian Squeeze
Hi!
* brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> [2010-07-14 04:04:57 CEST]:
> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 11:56:14AM +1000, Eraina and Richard jenkins wrote:
> > I have tried to find a recent iso for debian "squeeze" without
> > success. Debian 5.0.4 works well on this G5 machine, but many of the
> > programs are quite dated (like a kernel with numbering 2.6.26 !).
> > Someone suggested I try a weekly build of squeeze ... and if it's stable
> > I would like to give it a go.
If you need just some few updates like the kernel, see
<http://backports.org/> which has updated kernel images for stable.
Squeeze itself isn't yet stable, it's not even yet frozen, so there are
daily updates that can cause troubles in different areas like having to
adjust configuration files every now and then.
> The easiest way to do this is to install a stable Debian release and
> then simply change /etc/apt/sources.list to refer to testing, update the
> package lists, and then dist-upgrade. I run sid on all my machines, and
> that's the way I've installed all of them.
Please do not advice to change the sources.list to refer to testing but
rather to refer to squeeze. That way when squeeze becomes stable the
user will stay on the stable system and not switch to the next testing
version that comes after that.
So long!
Rhonda
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