On Mon 03 Feb 2003 at 11:13:43, David Smith said: > Having used both, here are some of the advantages/disadvantages of each. [...] > Debian [...] > Disadvantages > The Stable tree is oooold. Are they still using a 2.2 kernel?
Yes, in the 3.0 release. I think 3.0r1 went to 2.4, though... > To get anything worth using, you must run the testing branch Unless you don't mind building the unstable packages from source. But yet again, that isn't too different from Gentoo. The point is this: if you want the bleeding edge, you're going to have to compile from source, no matter which distro you use. If you use ready-packaged stuff, you'll always be a bit behind. I like Debian because I can have the base system (that doesn't change too much) stay as pre-compiled packages (from stable and testing), and then get the source packages out of the unstable tree. -- Soren Harward [EMAIL PROTECTED] ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
