On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 19:23, Chipzz wrote: > I see no point in installing stable on a desktop system either: even if > you DO have the woody backport of gnome 2.2 and/or XD 2, you're still > missing a lot of other recent packages; stable is old, makes little sen- > se for a desktop system at home. There's a difference in corporate en- > vironments, where you want absolute stability, or for a server. > My guess is that after a lot of the packages from unstable have migrated > to testing, you'll have a lot of current stable usesr going to testing. > Which is in the not so distant future.
I am obviously biased, but I would disagree with this. The gnome2.2 offers not only stability, but also a LOT of gnome packages-- I include all of official gnome2.2 as well as a good portion of gnome-fifth-toe (eg totem, abiword, gcalctool, gaim, xchat, etc). In addition I have backported evolution 1.2.4 (and will evo 1.4), gnucash and relatively recent versions of galeon and mozilla. One of the reasons I did the backport was indeed for the corporate environment, and it has worked well. I used to run sid and testing boxes on my home machines, but now I use the woody and backport, and really like how I don't have to worry about little things breaking (or even big). Like I said though, I am biased. :) Jamie -- James Strandboge Targeted Performance Partners, LLC Web: http://www.tpptraining.com E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (585) 271-8370 Fax: (585) 271-8373
