Re: A few general questions from a Debian newbie
Oliver Lupton wrote:
> Scott wrote:
>
>>>I was absolutely blown away by this:
>>>
>>>The latest official Debian Sarge package for Firefox is for v 1.04!
>>>http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mozilla-firefox/
>>>
>>>I'm rather surprised to see this. Why?
>>>
>>>Firefox is currently @ 1.07 and every "point" release since 1.0 has been
>>>due to security issues.
>
>
> Following the link you gave, I get to a file such as
> mozilla-firefox_1.0.4-2sarge5_i386.deb, I'm not entirely sure what the
> '-2' part means, but the 'sarge5' refers to this being the fifth
> security update the the 1.0.4[-2] package.
OK, but they also (logically) have 1.0.3 and 1.0.2 packages before it.
So logic would dictate 1.0.5, 1.0.6 and 1.07 following it.
I just checked Ubuntu's archive and they have 1.0.7 for their current
and all (3) previous distros. And there's no mistaking what version it is:
mozilla-firefox_1.0.7-0ubuntu0.0.2_i386.deb
Anywho as far as I'm concerned this is moot, I'm not using stable now,
nor do I plan to in the figure (unless Debian changes it's policy). If
I stick with Debian it will be always be testing/unstable.
Oh and why am did I decide to try Debian rather than stick with Ubuntu
(in case anyone was wondering)? A) Curiosity B) less compatibility
problems with certain packages. If you want full-blown multimedia you
have to install some "unofficial" packages that were written for Debian
(sometimes they work on Ubuntu, sometimes not).
So I figured well why not just try Debian? :-)
Forever in search of the (non-existent) "perfect" Linux distro,
--
Scott
www.angrykeyboarder.com
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