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Re: Up-to-date Gnome versions?



On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 03:10:38PM -0300, Gabriel Parrondo wrote:
> El jue, 20-09-2007 a las 10:42 -0700, Amit Uttamchandani escribió:
> > > 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)
> > 
> > The testing is meant for final users? I mean I am using etch on a laptop 
> > but of course would like some of the latest versions of some programs without 
> > having to compile them from source. So lenny is quite stable then for end 
> > desktop users?
> > 
> Yes it is.
> 
> Of course it's not meant for final users in the same sense as ubuntu is,
> you may get some dependency problems from time to time, but nothing hard
> to solve with a few 'apt-get install ...' (don't use aptitude on a
> non-stable distro!)

Could you elaborate on this? I have been using aptitude on sid for about 
two years without problems.

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

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