On 03-Nov-03, 14:21 (CST), Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<insert usual rant on how useless stable is for desktop and how testing is even worse than unstable>
Oh, not this crap again. Or perhaps you're contending that I've not gotten anything done at work in the last two years using my "useless" Debian stable desktop.
Hint: there's more to "useful" than running the latest version of everything. Particularly for a sys admin, who I'd expect to be heavily command line oriented, and who doesn't need the latest 3-d games or dvd player[1].
Okay, I am running Adrian Bunk's backport of Galeon/Mozilla (thanks, Adrian). But that's it.
Oh, not this crap again. Or perhaps you're contending that what is usefull for you is usefull for everybody.
Hint: there's more to "useful" than old version of software in early stages of development. Lot of desktop oriented apps are changing fast and older version are fairly poor (functionality, stability etc.) - open office, mozilla (and other browsers), kde, gnome etc. Lot of new HW has a better chance to be (better) supported on newer system (are new kernels available for stable?)
erik