[Gllug] Dazed and confused

[David Damerell]

On Tuesday, 11 Sep 2001, William Palfreman wrote:
>Personally, Debian pisses me off.  All that "Software in the public
>interest" stuff is just so cloying and icky.

... but also based on the same objectives that mean you have a free OS
to play with at all.

>Also, the stable version is
>incredibly out of date.  Its all very well when you on some kind of
>broadband, but on a modem downloading all those updates is mental.

Um, there aren't prohibitive numbers of updates to the stable version.

>  I
>don't want something to be so out of date I can't use any of the supplied
>packages for fear of security holes,

Hang on; there's too many updates, but you're afraid of security
problems with older packages?

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David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?

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