On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 02:56:59PM -0500, Chris Cox wrote: > Matt Zimmerman wrote: > >Actually it is quite the opposite. I tend to find everything that I need > >already provided and supported by Debian and need to install very little > >additional software. > > Good for you. My experience is that Debian is a bit out of date. I'm > guessing your running Debian unstable (?). That's your choice. Just > somewhat of a moving target.
Debian releases infrequently. Depending on your business and system practices, this can be an advantage or a disadvantage. I run stable releases on servers, and unstable on some desktops. In both cases, I generally get what I want from it. In the exceptional circumstances where I require a specific feature or bug fix, I upgrade individual packages on my stable systems. I'd be curious to hear what you found to be missing from Debian 3.0. Most of the complaints I hear tend to boil down to "version numbers are smaller", or misunderstandings about backported security fixes (which actually boils down to the same issue of version numbers). -- - mdz
