Benjamin Sher wrote: >Dear Alexandru: > >Thanks so much for an excellent clarification. > > > Whoa! Did Alexandru reply off-list? Shame on him/her! Now the rest of us don't get the benefit of his/her answer, nor does anyone in the future who might be searching the archives for just the answer he/she provided.
(Or perhaps that message just got lost on its way to me; in that case, "Never mind" (in the immortal words of Gilda Radner).) >Two follow-up questions: > >1) I have decided a few minutes ago to go with Sarge for the >reasons you mentioned. If I add apt-get.org and backports.org to >my apt sources, will I be able to seamlessly add updated >applications as they become available? Is this a good idea? > > Yes and no. You should be able to add packages, but I think you may have a rougher time of it on occasion if you stray from the official Debian repositories. (backports.org might be "official" enough to work okay.) >2) I have alredy downloaded "netinstall" (rc3). I thought that was >for the testing distro. Can I use this also for Sarge? > > If it's a Sarge netinstall, yes; if it's an Etch netinstall, maybe. This is the official Sarge netinstall: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r0a/i386/iso-cd/debian-31r0a-i386-netinst.iso I'm not sure where you go the "rc3" netinstall, but I suspect it was the Sarge installer when Sarge was still Testing, in which case, yes, it'll work. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
