Paul M Foster wrote: > I just know I'm gonna get flamed for this, but... > > I love Debian, I truly do. Upgrades/updates are seamless. No crappy > proprietary admin tools, just bare metal and vi for configs. Lots of > little programs you don't get on other distros. Rock solid. > > But... it's like a year behind every other distro out there. As an > example, I checked testing and unstable to see the latest version of > PostgreSQL offered, and it looks like it's 6.5.3. PostgreSQL 7.X was a > major update, and has been out for a while.
testing and unstable have 7.1.3, so I don't know what you looked up. > I realize that the all-volunteer nature of Debian means that testing and > such take much longer. And that the testing results in a more stable > distro. Longer to get released? Or for software to get into it? Yeah, the release cycle is long. As far as time getting software uploaded, it varies quite a bit from maintainer to maintainer. For example, Emacs-21 was released yesterday and was uploaded yesterday. Peter
