On Saturday 05 January 2008 15:24, Evan wrote: > There have been a lot of ideas tossed around on this thread, but the > general consensus seems to be that non-LTS releases (Gutsy in particular) > are somewhat unstable. Backports used with LTS releases are useful, but > (correct me if I'm wrong here) they don't provide new features such as > compiz-fusion or tracker, they only upgrade currently installed packages. > New packages can be (and routinely are) backported. The trick can be if they require newer versions of existing libraries. Then it may not be feasible.
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