On 2010-10-01 12:15 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Charles Marcus put forth on 10/1/2010 9:44 AM: >> On 2010-10-01 7:26 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >>> I guess Debian doesn't count as a "modern" distro then. ;) >>> Lenny has 1.2.13 available via backports. Squeeze is frozen, and >>> will apparently ship with 1.2.13, whenever Squeeze ships...
>> Yeah... I understand the argument, but this is why I've never >> seriously considered Debian for myself... > Due to the age of some/many packages in Debian Stable? Or because > new packages aren't introduced in between major releases, except for > those released via backports? Or both? Both... > One can always install new packages from source. I've done it a few > times on Debian simply because they didn't have the package at all. > I've also installed RPMs on Debian for the same reason--IOzone comes > to mind. I know, but I prefer to stick with the package manager if at all possible for many reasons... I don't go in for distro wars either, I prefer gentoo, but to each his/her own. -- Best regards, Charles
