[Malvern] Etchasketch

[Chris Eilbeck]

On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 08:18:33AM +0100, Andy Dixon wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The strangest thing happened when I got back last night.
> 
> After I sat down with a beer, opened my laptop and loaded up Etch, I  
> found that Alsa, Alsa-Modules, Alsa-Utils and Alsa-Tools all  
> disappeared.
> 
> Has this happened to any one else?

I've had similar things happen when Sarge became stable and packages started
disappearing from unstable.

> I'm downloading FC5 DVD iso at the mo, started it last night, so  
> giving that a try instead.

Is there anything you need from unstable in particular?  Have you considered
using Ubuntu/Kubuntu?  That's more modern than Debian stable.  I'd be
reluctant to give up the apt system now and move back to Redhat or Mandriva.

Chris
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