Hi. My main problem is that only KDE3 supports Greek in a normal way (that is without modifications in config files). That is that reason that I am so interested in KDE3.
How much time does usually pass before testing becomes stable? have a nice day, Mihalis. On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, David Z Maze wrote: > Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 11:10:17 -0500 > From: David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: woody to testing > Resent-Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 10:13:30 -0600 (CST) > Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > I am considering of moving to testing as well. > > I want to ask a few questions before doing this: > > > > 1. What are the major benefits of testing? > > You get software that's substantially closer to the "bleeding edge", > and is newer than the last stable Debian release. In theory this > includes a consistent set of software out of unstable that's been > there at least a week and a half and doesn't have serious problems. > > > 2. What are the major problems of testing? > > It doesn't have a separate security update system as stable does, and > security updates in unstable take time to trickle into testing. > Sometimes a severely broken package makes it from unstable into > testing. I think the actual infrastructure that generates testing is > pretty solid by now, though it's had some issues in the past. > > > 3. Can I go back to woody after moving to testing? > > Not easily. Package downgrades aren't well supported. A couple of > people have tried to go back with varying degrees of success; search > the debian-user archives for their stories. > > > 4. Which version of KDE does testing have? > > The search engine on http://packages.debian.org/ seems to think that > stable, testing, and unstable all have KDE 2.2. > > -- > David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ > "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." > -- Abra Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
