Re: A few general questions from a Debian newbie

[Thomas Jollans <tjollans@jollybox.de>]

Scott wrote:

>Kent West wrote:
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>>>3- OpenOffice 2 was recently added to Debian Unstable.
>>>Is it likely that OpenOffice 2 will be added to
>>>Debian Stable.  If so when?
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>>No. Stable does not get new packages, other than bug/security fixes and
>>the like.
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>And that my friends, is Debian's biggest flaw when it comes to the
>desktop user.  It's also why I'll never run stable
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I don't believe that the average desktop user requires the latest
software. Sarge is a perfectly functional and exceptionally stable
system an adequately simple user interface. However, I am not currently
using sarge, and this of course has its reasons. It is simply what I am
used to, which is GNOME >= 2.10, especially with its automounting
features.  So, I am using ubuntu for the time being because I got fed up
with using sid for everything that worked on sid and resorting o stable
for the rest. ubuntu provides me with a reasonable amount of stability
and gnome's automounting feature which I have grown to love.