Re: Woody with Gnome2.4 Backport or Sarge?
On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 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.
The gnome2.2 woody backport is in widespread use and stable. Just be
sure to read:
http://www.debianplanet.org/node.php?id=992
before upgrading.
Jamie Strandboge
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