MJ Ray wrote:
James Freer jessejazza@yahoo.co.uk wrote: [...]
surprised that debian have it as it is supposed to be slow at producing upgrades. I'll load debian on my test pc and give it a try.
If you ever get tired of the lies and damn lies about your fellow LUGgers that help produce debian, then try some statistics like http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/blog/2005/04/14#2005-04-14-sarge-v-hoary
"we get 2829 packages newer in sarge, 79 packages newer in hoary than sarge, 496 packages present in hoary and sid but not sarge, and 427 packages not present in sid. So if you’re looking for pure currency, Debian’s still doing significantly better when it comes to universe." [I'm not aware of the numbers on more recent releases.]
debian has a bit more time between major stable releases than some commercial operations (but are they as stable? ;-) ), but the point releases and the upgrade availability (source or backports binaries) are usually pretty good.
Regards,
Well... that is the sort of deduction that i've made being a newbie to linux. Ubuntu got a real damning in a comparison with PCLinuxOS. I just bought a book on ubuntu and tried it as many claim it's the best distro!
james