Le sam 30/10/2004 à 11:03, Frederick Ros a écrit : > Didier Spaier wrote : > | That's the way Mandrake manage releases ; as soon as they work on a > | newer release, they stop upgrading packages for older releases. They > | have contributors for small apps, but not for big stuffs like KDE or > | GNOME, neither for new kernels. > > Wow ..; I was considering using Mandrake on my wife and son desktop, to > ease update (especially compilation time for such thing as KDE), but if > kernel are not maintained for "old" version (even in case of security > problem ?) I should perhaps reconsider it and eventually stick to > Gentoo, while not updating KDE for each minor release ...
Security issues should be adressed. But you could install Slackware and stay current -- You'll usually found new Slackware packages for KDE as soon as there is a new realease, directly on KDE's mirors, GNOME one's on Dropline Gnome some days or weeks afterwards -- compiling GNOME beeing known as a possible nightmare -- and a lot of unofficial packages at linuxpackages.net. In most cases you'll get new apps a lot before Mandrake users. And in a Slackware package you'll find everything you need, with documentation always included : e.g. if you install KDE you'll get all KDE apps in a while, not only the desktop. Moreover installing a package on Slackware is as much complicated as installpkg <package name> Didier
