Re: woody, sarge, or sid?
Zim,
Get the "Apt-get HOW-TO" which can be found in the Documentation area of
www.debian.org. It covers *exactly* those sorts of concerns. Basically, you can
specify what your default distribution is and yet still specify that certain
packages should be taken from another distribution.
Nigel
On Wed, 28 May, Gezim H wrote:
> I am confused as to what should I use; woody, sarge or sid? Right now I have
> woody and I'm not pleased with it, because when I do "apt-get install xchat"
> it gives me xchat 1.8.9 instead of 2.0.2 (or so), thus it doesn't give me
> the lastest software out there, which I like. On the other hand if I get
> sarge or sid is my system gonna crush often, how unstable is really sid? If
> I get sid, and I want to install gimp, with "apt-get install gimp" is it
> gonna install gimp 1.3 (unstable)? Does sid use unstable packages too? How
> much more stable is sarge then sid? Is sid ever gonna become stable?
> Please give me some advise.
>
> Thanks,
> Zim
>
>
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