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? 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 gnome2.2 woody backport is in widespread use and stable. Just be sure to read: http://www.debianplanet.org/node.php?id=992 before upgrading. Jamie Strandboge -- Targeted Performance Partners, LLC Web: http://www.tpptraining.com E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (585) 271-8370 Fax: (585) 271-8373 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
