der.hans wrote:

> Am 13. Nov, 2001 schwätzte Bob George so:
> 
> 
>>Shhh. Hans fell asleep with his forehead on a Debian CD. It'll go away in a
>>few hours. Nobody tell him! :)
>>
> 
> Maybe that's what it was :).
> 
> 
>>Hans, you got me to try it a few years back and I've been happier ever
>>since! Started on RH 5.2, then made the jump. Now it's ALL OVER the place.
>>
> 
> Now that's a win! :)
> 
> Debian needs to get its act back together for releases, but there are some
> really cool improvements coming soon.
> 
> The dists need to work together to increase compatability between the dists,
> though.



Absolutely, as standard user applications should run on the stable version. 
I have had plenty of luck compiling and running newer apps for the stable base.
Since this has nothing to do with the stability of the OS, There needs to be an

OS critical list of packages and utilities and the other apps should be 
more *Free* to upgrade - emphasis added. So if anybody has any pull at 
Debian, please suggest this.

Eric