Re: Moving to Debian: updated software

On 04/22/2010 11:54 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
I am looking for KDE 4.4.2 and Open Office 3.2 packages for Lenny. I
have found qt-kde.debian, Debian Experimental, Testing, Unstable, and
Backports. 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.

Fedora 12 has KDE 4.4 and it's in a pretty stable shape. Also, it's officially supported,
as opposed to OpenSUSE.


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