Re: A Gnome Question

[Paul Makepeace]

On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 11:27:18AM +0000, Greg Cope wrote:
> I've played with rolling my own, based on a Linux kernel, but found that
> I ended up upgrading stuff all the time - which is not my idea of fun!

# apt-get update
# apt-get dist-upgrade

Bingo, all patches and upgrades performed.

> debian put me off as I tried an update on a 56k modem - 2 hours latter
> it had done 10 % ..... Their CD release cycles are far to far appart !

Yup -- their release cycle is frustratingly slow. Have a look
at http://www.cheapbytes.com/ -- they do debian snapshots. But
yes, it's not an OS that is modem friendly.

Paul