Time for a new Linux
Tim Writer
tim-s/rLXaiAEBtBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org
Thu Nov 6 17:53:11 UTC 2003
JoeHill <joehill-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org> writes:
> On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 10:27:44 +0000
> Ilya Palagin <IlyaPalagin-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> uttered:
>
> > The problem is that there is no distribution like this :-(
> >
> > Debian is too behind the times
>
> If you install Debian Stable, yes. If you install Debian Testing, it
> is/can be just as up-to-date as Mandrake.
It's not an either/or proposition. IOW, you can run stable with only the
components of testing or unstable you specifically need. So you can see how
this is done, here's my /etc/apt/preferences:
X-comment: ==================== Track stable
Package: *
Pin: release a=stable
Pin-Priority: 500
X-comment: ==================== Make testing available (for manual selection)
Package: *
Pin: release a=testing
Pin-Priority: 70
X-comment: ==================== Make unstable available (for manual selection)
Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 50
Only recently, OpenOffice.org 1.1 was added to testing. I ran:
apt-get -t testing install openoffice.org
The "-t testing" argument tells apt-get to temporarily raise the priority of
testing (above 500 [stable], I'm not sure of the exact value) so that my
previous version of OOo (and any missing dependencies) will be upgraded from
testing. Sometimes, it can be a little tricky to get this right but overall,
it works well. This is documented, albeit somewhat sparsly, at
the main Debian web site: http://www.debian.org.
Currently, I'm running Debian stable with:
o kernel 2.4.21,
o XFree86 4.3.0 with drm-trunk-module-src 2003.07.25 to support DRM on
the recent Intel chipset on my Dell notebook,
o KDE 3.1.3,
o GNOME 2.4, and
o OpenOffice.org 1.1.
In other words, I have a very up to date desktop running on a stable
foundation. This is the best of both worlds.
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