Back Again

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Wed Aug 1 14:22:53 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 08:39 -0400, Claude Jones wrote:
> and I did notice that their repos tended to lag behind the release
> curve after some time - security patches would come through, but many
> other packages would remain with older versions for much longer
> periods than with other distros.

Didn't Debian always have that reputation?  The normal release being
somewhat behind the times, but very stable because of it.  Those who
wanted the lastest, to forgo the ordinary release and get their extra
bits another way.

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[tim at bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr
2.6.22.1-33.fc7 i686 i386

Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5.  Today, it's FC7.

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