Daniel James wrote:
> Hi Rosea,
>
>> By the way where is that jaunty-backports coming from? 
>
> We backport packages to multiple distros using the software 
> Backporter, written by Free:
>
> http://trac.64studio.com/backporter/
>
> For example, this repo:
>
> http://apt.64studio.com/backports/dists/jaunty-backports/
>
> is used for backports for Transmission, the distro on the Indamixx, 
> which is based on Jaunty.
>
> Our preference is for Debian stable or LTS versions of Ubuntu as base 
> distros, but Hardy LTS is not up to date enough for the wireless 
> networking features required in a netbook or web tablet.
>
> Free judged that it was easier to port Transmission to Jaunty than to 
> backport all the NetworkManager 0.7 stuff to Hardy. So we went with 
> Jaunty for Transmission 3.0
>
> Cheers!
>
> Daniel
>
Thanks Daniel,

So you recommended 64studio based on LTS, but 64studio based on Jaunty 
for netbooks?

So I can use that backport repo safely on Jaunty the same way as you can 
use the 64studio hardy backports for Hardy?

\r

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