Thus spake Michael Kaminsky ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > * One reason I moved to Mandrake from Redhat (from Slackware) is that > the packages are extremely up-to-date. Even the unstable version of > Debian seems sorely lacking. Mandrake seems to put out RPMs within > 1-2 days of the upstream developers. There are still no Debian > packages for software I use regularly that's been out for > 1 month > (according to the debian web page package search form). > Example: gnucash.
GnuCash is a bad example :-) I just this month switched to Debian from 3+ years of Red Hat and I'm quite happy with the up-to-date-ness of packages. Some night this week, I'll get to detailing how I went about compiling GnuCash 1.6.4 (the latest) from source and am using it fine. This was my only real hang-up. The only other things I had to do from source were Firestarter (no deb), muttprint (slightly old), SpamAssassin (and related Perl mods -- no deb), and kbiff (no deb). -- Justin R. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP/GnuPG Key ID 0xC9C40C31 (preferred)
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