From: Hamish Moffatt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 11:02:04AM -0500, Mark Mealman wrote: > > I really don't like unstable either, but I've pretty much > > abandoned the stable tree as too behind the times back when > > slink was nearing freeze. > > Here's a serious question for you: which parts are too old on slink > to perform the functions you need? Seriously?
Sorry to intrude, but in my case: 1. Kernel 2.0 (need 2.2 for NTFS support) 2. X (for Matrox G400) 3. DHCPCD (don't know why, but the old version didn't work) 4. I'd like a later version of Perl (5.004 is very old) 5. fvwm (stable only has beta version 2, current is 2.2) 6. gnome (stable version is old & seems buggy, unstable has 1.0) That's quite a long list. And it's fairly central stuff. It has a lot of dependencies and downloading over modem (not on a free line) is fairly painful. I'm running on a personal workstation, not a server, so "unstable" versions are fine. But huge downloads aren't. Sure, I'm not the only type of user, but I suggest that I am typical of a fairly large group of people who would like Debian. Paul
