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Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?



Wei Chen <wchenhk@gmail.com> wrote:

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> CaT wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 02:10:08PM +0800, Wei Chen wrote:
> >> You know that Etch is about to release. This means that new
> >> features and software will not get into it any more.
> >>
> >> So what is a better choice now, to stick to Etch or to switch to
> >> the next testing? I am not sure which is more important for
> >> desktop users, stability or new features.
> > 
> > Use etch until such time that etch no longer does what you need it
> > to. Then, if you feel it's worth it, switch to lenny (the next
> > testing I believe). It may be that backports or something similar
> > would do you.
> 
> Thanks. That is what I plan to do now.
> 
> > 
> >> I think there might be some people with similar problem/experience
> >> with me. What is your plan/suggestion?  Thank you.
> > 
> > I plan on doing the above. That said I'm still on sarge and don't
> > really lack for anything except for the odd thing like mplayer etc
> > which I grab from sources outside of debian anyway (like
> > www.debian-multimedia.org).
> > 
> 
> Except that I probably won't grab and install source (who knows). :)

I think CaT was talking about sources=_repositories_ outside Debian. Of
course the source code is also available, but the precompiled packages
are all most of us need.

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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