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Re: Users ready for Debian on the Desktop



On Fri, 2003-04-18 at 17:42, Jon Wood wrote:
> > That said, Windows installs only install
> > Windows. OS/2 installs give you a significant amount of working software
> > relative to standard Windows. Linux gives you the whole range of
> > possibilities - services, hardware support, applications, applications,
> > applications, really obscure applications, utilities, window managers
> > and their related environments up the ying-yang - all in one
> > installation session. Personally, I fear the thought of running dselect
> > against the Sid collection of packages ;)
> 
> Could someone enlighten me as to what Sid is? As a semi-newbie I've been
> around long enough to see it mentioned, and not long enough to know what
> it is :P
> 
> Jon

Sid is, and will remain, the Unstable collection of packages within
Debian.
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