Re: etch --> testing
- From: steve <sfreilly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:11:46 -0500
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charlie derr wrote:
| An associate is not quite as avid a linux user as I am (though he's been
| at it at least as long). He's got a machine that's running etch that he
| uses as a general all-purpose workstation desktop (gnome, icedove,
| iceweasel, ooo, emacs, cups, and a bunch more often-used apps). He's
| really eager to upgrade from etch to something newer. So I thought I'd
| ask here about any possible pitfalls, or suggestions of how best to get
| him to a semi-stable bunch of packages from testing/lenny. For that
| matter is there any information about when a lenny freeze might happen?
| (so that I can help him time a in switch his /etc/apt/sources.list back
| from testing to lenny so that he can avoid shooting himself in the foot
| later)
|
hes not going to find anything fancy by going to testing. Debian is not
known for "bling" try ubuntu if he is after the latest and greatest
packages, desktop effects, etc.
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Steve Reilly
http://reillyblog.com
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