Re: Keeping more up to date than Lenny, safely?
Revisiting an old thread, for a correction. Cutting and pasting other
conversations:
Ron Johnson wrote:
OP: >> but at the same time i read the release notes for the new
OP: >> Ubuntu beta, and its really nice. I *want* Gnome 2.24 (the auto
Unstable is at GNOME v2.22.5
Find a released distro that has GNOME 2.24. (I'm not being flippant,
but am totally serious. Many people change distros on a regular basis.)
> On 10/21/08 09:05, Mark Allums wrote:
>> First, sorry for bugging you, I wanted your opinion.
[snip]
>> Basically, I think I was wrong about GNOME being in transition to
>> 2.24
>> from 2.22 in Debian. I must have been thinking of something else at
>> the time. (*I* have some elements of 2.23 on my system, but it's not
>> from Debian. I think. Sigh. "Senior moments" in my early forties.)
>>
>> Remember when I asked you to call me on it when I am out of my head
>> about something? This may have been one of those times it needed
>> doing. It could well have puzzled some folks, and certainly misled
>> the OP.
[snip]
> We can't reply to, nor know, everything. For all I knew, Debian Sid
> *might* have been in the midst of a GNOME 2.24 transition.
>
> Although I'd be surprised, given the push to get Lenny out, which is
> why
> OOo3 is will sit in Experimental for a while.
Debian does *not* have 2.24 available as a Debian package. I was wrong.
Mark Allums
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