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Re: Woody with Gnome2.4 Backport or Sarge?



On (22/12/03 08:50), M. Kirchhoff wrote:
> A friend of mine is interested in migrating from WinXP to Debian. I
> suggested that Woody is ideal for the most secure, stable environment,
> but he balked at the ugly Gnome1.x.
> 
> My question is thus: is it better to install Woody and backports of
> Gnome2.4, Mozilla, Pan, and other of his assorted favorites, or simply
> go with Sarge? Gnome2.x comprises such a large number of packages that I
> question the stability of its backport, not to mention the other
> additional backports.
> 
FWIW I found KDE3.1 more intuitive and it may be worth looking at - it
should be available for woody at: http://www.kde.org/download/ 

Regards

Clive

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