Potato vs. Woody
I was wondering.. should I be sticking with Potato or switch to Woody?
Currently, my setup is I am running a Gateway. A router so my Windows
computers can share an internet connection. I installed Potato 2.2r5,
but I wanted iptables so I performed the Bunk hack to upgrade to Kernel
version 2.4.17. This worked good so far.
But now I'm finding that I want to get updated versions of other things
that aren't available in Stable (or the Stable version is old). Most of
these, I just surf to the Unstable Packages page of the Debian website
and download the .deb file, then dpkg --install it.
But is there a way for me to use apt-get to install these newer
packages, without fully upgrading to Woody?
OR, alternately, should I just bite the bullet and upgrade to Woody
since it's due to be released in May?
If I upgrade to Woody, how do I do it? Would I just edit
/etc/apt/sources.list, replace all "stable" with "woody", then apt-get
update; apt-get upgrade ?
A friend of mine, who knows way more about Debian and Linux than I do,
told me that when she upgraded to Woody some time ago, there were many
security holes in her system. Do I need to worry about this still?
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