On 24 April 2010 02:38, Ron Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > On 04/22/2010 03:54 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > [snip] >> >> It looks to me that Backports is the best for an everyday >> user who values stability, and prefers to use released software >> version. Please let me know where I am mistaken. Thanks. > > "stable with current releases" is a contradiction. If you want current > releases, run Testing or Unstable. (Ignore the scary words from the > website. Testing and Unstable are Stable Enough.) >
Thanks, Ron. I don't see the contradiction: I want released software, no betas or alphas. I am using the word "stable" as in "not crashy (doesn't fall down)", not in the sense of "doesn't change". I wondered if Testing or Unstable would provide that. > If you *really want* Stable, though, deinstall iceweseal, icedove, > openoffice, etc and get their binaries directly from upstream. There's no > shame in that. (For OOo, I'd recommend www.go-oo.org; it's Debian's > upstream.) > -- Dotan Cohen http://bido.com http://what-is-what.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
