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Topher,

I have to disagree that Debian is way behind the curve.  Debian's stable 
version is designed to be the most rock solid distro out there for 
administrators that want to throw up a box and forget about it until a 
piece of hardware blows up in it.  It is not designed to be bleeding 
edge, it is designed for stability and security.  Bleeding edge distros 
are usually full of bugs and security issues.  Unlike most other 
distros, Debian maintains three versions: stable, testing, and 
unstable.  If you want to run the bleeding edge Debian system, all you 
have to do is change "stable" to "testing" or "unstable" in your 
/etc/apt/sources.list and then run a apt-get update ; apt-get -f 
dist-upgrade.  If you choose unstable you will have the latest "bleeding 
edge" version of everything with bugs and all!  I find that running 
Debian testing on my desktop gives me pretty much the latest software 
with most of the security and stability of the "stable" version.  I even 
run Debian testing on my personal server and I never have to touch it.

Just my two cents.

Rick Vargo


GRLUG general mailing list wrote:
>> I thought it had - isn't that what Ubuntu did? I one disc, easy to 
>> install and use debian distro with everything?
>>     
>
> Ubuntu is very attractive to me, but STILL had the debian problem of being 
> way behind the curve on current software.  Is there any hope at all for a 
> modern apt based distro?
>
> Topher
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