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On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 22:11:43 -0400,
Bjarne Oftedahl <viking1293@yahoo.com> wrote:
> This distribution (woody) seems to have ancient versions of packages
> in it? Are there updates to bring it somewhere into the last 2 years
> or so? If so where do they live?
>


Debian stable (currently woody) is intended for use in situations where
stability of packages is important, not stability in the sense of not
crashing, that's allways important. But stability in the sense of not
changing if it doesn't have to. It's very popular with servers for that
reason, you don't want to go changing stuff on a server on a weekly
basis if you can avoid it.

If you want more cutting edge stuff, either switch to testing or
unstable (Sarge, and Sid respectively) or try another distro, even a
Debian related one like Ubuntu.


You can use backports if you only want a couple of more cutting edge
packages, but if you need more than a couple, you are better off
switching to testing, Sid, or something like Kanotix.


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