On 2003-11-26 08:36:08 +0000 Richard Lewis richard.lewis@uea.ac.uk wrote:
The 'stable' release comes with quite old packages, doesn't it? Whats the best way to use Debian with more up-to-date packages?
Either use testing or unstable and accept that you have to keep downloading quite a lot and it will break on occasion; OR get one of the package builders to work, but that can be a bit more of a black art ("backporting").
I've looked at downloading the ISOs for the 'testing' release. But it comes on about 11 discs and I can't find out whats on what disc.
Generally, more popular packages appear on the earlier CDs, so most things you want are on CD1 and 2. The first 5(?) used to be bootable, with different types of kernel and so on, at least on i386. There might be "jigdo" lists of which packages are on each CD, if I remember correctly.
OT: should we add linux@uea to the places which get ALUG meeting announcements?