Renaud Dreyer wrote: > > I've been running potato on my PowerMac 7300 for almost a year now, > and am wondering if it would be the time to upgrade various > packages. > > First, I assume I can safely upgrade to the Netscape 4.7x packages > in woody (or is it sid?)? I'm running Netscape 4.6 right now.
I'd say so, the only problems I've had with 4.7 are related to Roaming Access. > Second, I've been running Xfree 3.98 (beta version of 4) for a while > now and I'd love to upgrade to the "real" thing. Are the XF 4.02 > pacakges I keep reading about compatible with potato or only with > woody/sid? The latter. You could build them yourself on potato though. > Sould I simply upgrade to sid/woody? I'm feeling a little bit > squeamish about such a radical change. Changing to testing (woody) shouldn't be too radical but will get you everything you want soon. unstable (sid) is not for the faint of heart. Michel -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ CS student and free software enthusiast Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc,i386) user \ member of XFree86 and The DRI Project
