[Tfug] [Fwd: Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 released]

[Matt Jacob]

Available in 21 CDs or 3 DVDs? Holy optical media, Batman!

Even Vista and OS X are only 1 DVD apiece...

Matt

On 4/9/07, Claude Rubinson <rubinson at u.arizona.edu> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 06:12:50PM -0700, Jim March wrote:
> > OK...so what's people's opinions of this?
>
> <snip>
>
> > For personal desktop use, what are the pros and cons here?
>
> There's actually a fair amount of buzz around Etch being released as
> stable.  A number of people (myself included) think that Etch may be
> the first stable release that could meet the needs of desktop users.
> By that I mean, for example, that I use my desktop for work and I'm
> not particularly concerned with eye-candy, games, etc.  Frankly, I'd
> prefer not to update my desktop except for security patches and
> functionality upgrades that I really need.
>
> The testing branch was created, in part, to meet the needs of users
> who needed more current versions of certain applications and were
> taking to compiling from source.  But it's had some problems in that,
> on pretty rare occasions, a buggy application has slipped through.
> (The PAM breakage from a few years back was probably the most
> significant one.)  And security support has been spotty.
>
> I'm not sure if I'll move to Etch for my laptop or stick with
> testing.  But I think that running stable is a real possibility for me
> now and I really like that.
>
> Claude
>
>
>
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