[Hudlug] Debian repositories

[Anne Wilson]

On Saturday 07 Jan 2006 17:04, Andrew Beresford wrote:
> Hi Anne,
>
> On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 15:07 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > Thanks.  As far as using it on a server, I presume that once I have
> > everything up and running as I want it I will probably only need
> > the Security repository.
>
> Yes, that's a fair assumption to make. The debian releases do get
> updates from time to time, and these end up in the main repository,
> but all security fixes go into the security.debian.org repository and
> you should be safe only applying these.
>
> > Once that is settled in I'll take a different view of what I'm
> > doing, to see how it is for a desktop.  Thanks again.
>
> I'd *strongly* recommend Ubuntu (or Kubuntu if you're a KDE'er). For
> desktop use it's a 1000 times more "usable" (ie, everything tends to
> "just work" as you'd expect) and it's more up to date than Debian
> stable.
>
I'll try that when the time comes.  Thanks

Anne
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