Re: Which version
* Troy Bull <troy.bull@uni.edu> [061212 07:00]:
> Greetings
>
> I am totally new to debian. I recently downloaded and installed 3.1r4 I
> noticed that is seems very old. Am I needing to update or something to
> get current packages? I did apt-get upgrade and nothing was updated..
>
> I noticed the kernel was 2.4 something, and open office was 1.1. These
> are two examples only, that make me wonder if everything else is equally
> out dated. Should i choose a different distribution to get the current
> stuff?
You are running the "stable" release. Most people should be running
the "testing" release of Debian, which currently is "Etch". Note that
Etch is within a few weeks of becoming "stable".
If you need the very latest of everything, you need to run "unstable".
I ran "unstable" for over a year, with only occasional problems which
typically were fixed (by upgrades) within a few weeks.
Compared to other distributions, Debian is very conservative.
Consequently, Debian "testing" typically is just as bug-free as are
the production releases of other distributions.
The command you need to run is "apt-get update" followed by "apt-get
dist-upgrade". However, if you are new to Debian, you really should
be using Synaptic for package management, in order to avoid pitfalls.
RLH
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