tallison writes: > stable comes less than once a year from my limited experience. But I > think you can still get packages from some very old releases. But I do > not know if they are actually maintained for security updates and such (I > suspect not).
Potato (the Stable release before Woody, the current Stable) is still being maintained. > If you insist on the very bleeding edge versions all the time, you > probably won't find them in the stable version of deb-src files. In most cases you can compile source packages from Unstable on Stable. The best security and stability is achieved by sticking with Stable, however. > But Debian does things differently than many of the others. The Debian > Policy dictates that files be in certain places and be called certain > things. Generally because standards such as the FHS and POSIX say so. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]