Time for a new Linux

Ilya Palagin IlyaPalagin-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Thu Nov 6 18:14:41 UTC 2003


JoeHill wrote:

> 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.
> 
> here is a list of packages avail in testing:
> 
> http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/update_excuses.html
> 
> Note the appearance of things like Gnome 2.4, OO 1.1, Mozilla 1.4, etc.
> 
> 
>> Mandrake is too ahead of the times
> 
> 
> Examples? 

Mandrake 9.2.  As far as I know, there are about 200MB of updates 
already. Wasn't the release crude?


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