Qui, 2007-01-04 às 11:10 +0000, Dominic Hargreaves escreveu: > On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 11:00:16AM +0000, Paul Waring wrote: > > > I think the problem that many people find with Debian is that they do > > want the stability and security of stable, but at the same time they > > don't want to be a dozen releases behind upstream. I've seen many > > occasions where there's been a new release with useful features that has > > been available in upstream for months and it's still not in Debian > > stable, even though it is available in the package repositories of other > > Linux distributions. It's not so much a case of wanting to be on the > > bleeding edge for most people, but more that we don't want to still be > > powering our machines with crank handles when everyone else has moved on > > to electricity. > > backports.org is, to my mind, a perfect solution to this problem; it > allows you to selectively upgrade your favourite/important packages that > you need, whilst retaining the stable base on which to run them. >
here i agree that backports.org is the way out and that should be official so maintainers could upload backports in a easier and have a better security support. (and gives users other view for it if backports.org is indeed in debian and recommended by debian.) > One proviso I would add to that is that it's only good so long as it > doesn't move too much focus away from Debian's own stable releases. I > can't see any evidence of that at present. It's also possibly the case > that backports.org could/should made more official or at least offically > recommended by Debian, although I understand why this isn't necessarily > the case right now. > > However, the original question was about hardware support, which is a > rather special case. I've spent many frustrated hours getting Debian > stable onto modern hardware using various tricks and hacks, and I'm sure > anyone running Debian extensively in production has had similar > experiences. This is one area where an official updated installer and > kernel would greatly improve life, and I'm very interested by Moritz's > comment that this is planned for etch. oh yeah ... in the woody time, i was save by a d-i rc1, installing new hp proliants. > > Cheers, > > Dominic. > > -- > Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ > PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email) > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]