Re: Migrate from RedHat to Debian
tallison writes:
> stable comes less than once a year from my limited experience. But I
> think you can still get packages from some very old releases. But I do
> not know if they are actually maintained for security updates and such (I
> suspect not).
Potato (the Stable release before Woody, the current Stable) is still being
maintained.
> If you insist on the very bleeding edge versions all the time, you
> probably won't find them in the stable version of deb-src files.
In most cases you can compile source packages from Unstable on Stable. The
best security and stability is achieved by sticking with Stable, however.
> But Debian does things differently than many of the others. The Debian
> Policy dictates that files be in certain places and be called certain
> things.
Generally because standards such as the FHS and POSIX say so.
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John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin
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