Don't shoot. I ask here because I know some here are debian users. I just created an vmware app with debian... I thought I was using the newest install media for latest release (lenny I think).
But once installed (and this was a network install not from disc) I find really ancient tools.. a 2.6.18 kernel for example. Running `apt-cache search emacs' shows the newest available version to be emacs-21... which is barely even supported still. I must need to edit my sources for package installs or something but isn't there a way to know right off the bat what version of debian you have? But I'm thinking I've got hold of some older version here.
