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[ILUG] Going to try debian

[ILUG] Going to try debian

Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com
Tue Sep 7 21:48:16 IST 2004


Quoting Niall Walsh (linux at esatclear.ie):

> I would suggest sarge+unstable with apt-pinning if you want to be able 
> to get to the latest and greatest software on a desktop, just sarge if 
> you just want a solid system.

Strongly agree, except using branch names rather than functional
(symlink) names is almost aways a mistake.  So, I'd say
"testing+unstable with apt-pinning" and "just testing", in the above.





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