[lug] Re: [NMLUG] Debian...again

[Kevin Rosenberg]

jdavis wrote:
>  So i have grown restless with my Linux distro (rh7.3)...so here
> i am with debian3.0 again. This time its staying. 

I used redhat from version 4.2 to 7.2. But, after starting with Debian
last year, I won't be going back to redhat.
 
>  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 SOL? 

You say you want "the latest". Debian separates "the latest" from
"known to be stable". Debian has 3 distributions at any time: stable,
testing, and unstable. Currently, their names respectively are woody,
sarge, and sid.

I have systems with running each distribution. I like stable (woody)
for running production servers, testing (sarge) for workstations, and
unstable (sid) for development machines and trying out the latest
software. Most of my systems run sid. Things change rapidly in sid; I
get between 20 to 50 packages updated each day. Sometimes these new
packages may be broken for a short time, but they get fixed rapidly.

> Is there a list that contains all the servers i can use to get new
> pkgs with apt?

If you are committed to running Debian 3.0 (woody/stable); there are a
few apt repositories that had have backported packages (such as
gnome2.2) to woody. http://www.debianplanet.org has had a few articles
about such repositories.

In general, if you really want the latest software as opposed to the
most tested/stable software, you may want to use the sid (unstable)
distribution rather than woody (stable).

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