[Gllug] Re: New Linux user here ^^

[Craig Millar]

On 23/02/07 09:33 +0000, Ryan Cartwright wrote:
> > As I understood it (and I've not looked into it that deeply to be honest) if
> > you want bleeding edge kde, amarok etc (read desktop) stuff under Debian you
> > are best off using unstable. Whereas I get the impression that the wait is a
> > little less with ubuntu. 
> 
> I assume you mean the wait for it to "stablise" is less? I had the
> impression that Sid gets package updates before Ubuntu simply because
> Ubuntu is an attempt to stabilise Sid so it has to wait. It's a little
> difficult to compare them though as Ubuntu works on the principle of
> releases and Sid does not. That would imply the way you utilise them is
> different.

Well, sid is "unstable", but for example in Debian to get kde 3.5.6 you'd
have to go to experimental. Ubuntu has this same release in stable. This
example may only be applicable to the kde packages however.

Craig
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