Re: Best debian for me

2001-12-15 Thread Paul Mackinney
Justin R. Miller muttered: > Say you've got a testing install. Is it better to just pull in sources > from unstable as well, or to actually dist-upgrade to unstable? As I > understand it, unstable is a moving target. What would be the > difference? I dist-upgraded to testing, but most of my pac

Re: Best debian for me

2001-12-09 Thread dman
On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 06:35:41PM -0500, Justin R. Miller wrote: | Thus spake Adam Warner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): | | > Since you want the latest software you might want to consider | > `unstable'. Being an experienced user you'll be able to deal with | > problems (e.g. if you need to downgrade a pa

Re: Best debian for me

2001-12-09 Thread Justin R. Miller
Thus spake Adam Warner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Since you want the latest software you might want to consider > `unstable'. Being an experienced user you'll be able to deal with > problems (e.g. if you need to downgrade a package). And it's more > secure than testing.* > > If you do upgrade remembe

Re: Best debian for me

2001-11-21 Thread Adam Warner
On Wed, 2001-11-21 at 18:02, Jonathan Hunt wrote: > Hi, > > I am probably going to repartition my hard drive and after being a satisfied > Debian 2.2r2 user I am going to do a clean install. I was wanting the > following things in my new setup: > > GCC >= 3.0 > XFree86 >= 4.0 >

Re: Best debian for me

2001-11-20 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 21-Nov-2001 Jonathan Hunt wrote: > Hi, > > I am probably going to repartition my hard drive and after being a satisfied > Debian 2.2r2 user I am going to do a clean install. I was wanting the > following things in my new setup: > > GCC >= 3.0 > XFree86 >= 4.0 > Linux kerne

Best debian for me

2001-11-20 Thread Jonathan Hunt
Hi, I am probably going to repartition my hard drive and after being a satisfied Debian 2.2r2 user I am going to do a clean install. I was wanting the following things in my new setup: GCC >= 3.0 XFree86 >= 4.0 Linux kernel >=2.4.0 ReiserFS (instead of ext2 for m