Carl Fink wrote: > > The thing is, the Debian Project is set up to guarantee that Stable will > never actually be usable. If you want anything resembling current software, > you MUST use Unstable or Testing. That makes Testing the de facto "standard > workstation distribution" for Debian. > > I run Stable on the servers I administer, but 100% of them have to use some > hand-compiled or backported software, or they'd be unusable.
Really? I administer a number of servers and workstations. Currently, these are my backport needs: server: bind9 version 9.3 (I need keys so that I can have internal and external DNS views without doubling the number of nameservers) workstation: OO.org2; wx2.6; Subversion 1.3 (need JavaHL for Eclipse); pbuilder; debian-policy; lintian; linda (the last four to maintain my packages) Now, out of umpteen bazillion packages in the archive, that is not bad. In fact, the only which I consider an absolute must have are OO.org2 and bind9 9.3. The others I could live without. I am interested what software you absolutely must have which is not in Sarge or is not new enough in Sarge. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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