Re: Up-to-date Gnome versions?
2007/9/20, Gabriel Parrondo <g.parrondo@gmail.com>:
> El jue, 20-09-2007 a las 08:56 -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum escribió:
> > I see that Gnome 2.20 was just released. Im running Debian Etch, which
> > still seems to be stuck on Gnome 2.14, even though 2.16 was released
> > about a year ago and 2.18 since then.
>
> Since Etch is now the stable distribution, it is frozen, which means
> that no newer apps will enter it (except for security fixes).
> If you want more up-to-date apps you'd rather use Lenny, which is the
> actual testing distribution. It has the advantage of being up-to-date
> while keeping a good level of stability. It's meant for final users
> (unlike stable, which is meant for servers)
no testing is not meant for end users, it's ment for testing!
Testing means that things may break and you are on your own if things
break. It also means that by installing testing by definition you
declare that you to some extent know what you are doing and are able
to fix this yourself or wait until someone fixes it for you (probably
with the next "aptitude full-upgrade" - which is btw. afaik the
recommended way of the former apt-get dist-upgrade iirc).
It's not bad to use but you are asking for trouble if you use testing
and aren't aware of the above.
martin
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