On 2010-10-01 12:15 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Charles Marcus put forth on 10/1/2010 9:44 AM:
On 2010-10-01 7:26 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
I guess Debian doesn't count as a "modern" distro then. ;) Lenny has 1.2.13 available via backports. Squeeze is frozen, and will apparently ship with 1.2.13, whenever Squeeze ships...
Yeah... I understand the argument, but this is why I've never seriously considered Debian for myself...
Due to the age of some/many packages in Debian Stable? Or because new packages aren't introduced in between major releases, except for those released via backports? Or both?
Both...
One can always install new packages from source. I've done it a few times on Debian simply because they didn't have the package at all. I've also installed RPMs on Debian for the same reason--IOzone comes to mind.
I know, but I prefer to stick with the package manager if at all possible for many reasons... I don't go in for distro wars either, I prefer gentoo, but to each his/her own.
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Best regards,
Charles