Advice on staying current

[andy <geek_show@dsl.pipex.com>]

Hey all

Well, this is about the anniversary of week one as a Debian Etch user, 
and I must say, it has been a very cool experience so far. There have 
been a couple of hiccups, but as I haven't been able to reproduce them, 
I'll let those slide for now. Otherwise, this has been a great 
experience and I am loving having access to so many applications that 
install so well: what a breeze!!

Anyway, I just wanted to pick the collective brain here: short of doing 
a dist-upgrade with apt-get, or upgrading individual packages, is there 
a third way of ensuring that the system-wide software I am running is 
up-to-date (although, I don't want bleeding edge from Sid!!)?

Thanks for a steer.


Cheers

/A