[lug] Debian Again

[Nate Duehr]

Aw gee I'm on a roll tonight... someone put a quarter in me, I guess.

I forgot, if you're really going for "latest and greatest" on stuff, I think
Gentoo does a better job than all of them in that department... drive space
requirements for all that source code and days of CPU time to compile
things, notwithstanding... (GRIN).

Or there's always the Linux from Scratch docs/manual/project... if you find
that you have FAR too much time on your hands...

Nate Duehr, nate at natetech.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dhruva Reddy" <bdhruva at gmx.net>
To: <lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 5:07 PM
Subject: Re: [lug] Debian Again


> They usually take a while to come out with the latest and greatest Mozilla
> (I can't remember how long).
>
> If you want the latest and greatest in Debian packages, you will want to
> point to the "unstable" distribution.  This, for the most part, actually
works
> pretty well.  Depending on your enthusiasm for upgrading, you may
occasionally
> come across a broken package.
>
> Mozilla 1.3 just came out last week.  If you want that version (which you
do
> :-), you will probably (not sure, because I'm "between" DSL providers at
the
> moment) have to download it directly from mozilla.org.
>
> Not sure about GNOME or Evolution.  VMWare should not really be a problem
> (of course, I haven't really set this up successfully).
>
> -d
>
> >
> > Hello,
> >  So i have grown restless with my Linux distro (rh7.3)...so here
> > i am with debian3.0 again. This time its staying.
> >  So i am a almost first time debian user. I need some advice about
> > setting my box back up. I want the newest Evolution,Mozilla,Gnome
> > and VMWare if possible. Should I just download and compile, or should
> > I use apt or am I just SOL?
> > Is there a list that contains all the servers i can use to get new
> > pkgs with apt?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > jd
>
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