On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 13:35:00 -0300, Gabriel Parrondo wrote: >El jue, 20-09-2007 a las 08:56 -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum escribió: >> I see that Gnome 2.20 was just released. Im running Debian Etch, >> which still seems to be stuck on Gnome 2.14, even though 2.16 was >> released about a year ago and 2.18 since then. >> >> What are the plans for integrating more up-to-date versions of Gnome >> into Etch, or into later versions of Debian? I dont have any special >> needs but would rather up as up to date as possible with apps and >> setup and bug fixes. > >Since Etch is now the stable distribution, it is frozen, which means >that no newer apps will enter it (except for security fixes). If you >want more up-to-date apps you'd rather use Lenny, which is the actual >testing distribution. It has the advantage of being up-to-date while >keeping a good level of stability. It's meant for final users (unlike >stable, which is meant for servers) > >If you want to have the last version of every program then you should >use Sid, which is always the unstable distribution... but, as you might >have guessed from the name, it's not very stable.
I'd just like to point out that "testing" and "unstable" mean different things when used in a Debian context than in the context of many other distributions and operating systems. IMHO Debian's unstable is far more stable than a stable release of Windows. /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus．therning＠gmail．com http://therning.org/magnus
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