On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 08:50, M. Kirchhoff wrote: > A friend of mine is interested in migrating from WinXP to Debian. I > suggested that Woody is ideal for the most secure, stable environment, > but he balked at the ugly Gnome1.x. > > My question is thus: is it better to install Woody and backports of > Gnome2.4, Mozilla, Pan, and other of his assorted favorites, or simply > go with Sarge?
it depends > Gnome2.x comprises such a large number of packages that I > question the stability of its backport, not to mention the other > additional backports. The gnome 2.4 backports have been pretty widely tested, gnoppix uses them (I think they helped create them) an I believe that the 80,000+ desktops in extramadura spain are using either the 2.2 or 2.4 backports. Give 'em a try. I think it will work just fine. -- Mark Roach -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
