Vikram wrote: [snip]
[snip]was not looking at the right place, but what is the version of Gnome that comes with Debian Woody 3.0 revision 2?
[snip]Version 1.4.
apt-cache show gnome-core
[snip]That surprises me. The Gnome is already 2.4.2 stable, why is Debian lagging in adopting a newer version of Gnome. If I were to install Debian 3.0_r2, what would I have to get the benefits of the latest version of Gnome? Do I have to install a lot of packages or apt-get can take care of the entire Gnome suite? Sorry if my questions sound dumb.
Stable (in the Debian sense) is designed to be rock-solid stable. Thus, upgrading GNOME from 1.4 to 2.4, represents a huge change in the behavior of the system. Not a good thing if you admin 10000 workstations, and something breaks. GNOME 2.4 is currently in testing, and will likely make out in the next stable release.
Other distros will hapilly put the latest bleeding-edge versions of software into their new releases. But then, most other distros have not earned the reputation for security that Debian has earned.
-Roberto
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