Sorry for replying to my own message, and sorry for messing the first attempt up, but it should read "compatibility" where the first link is. On Mon, 2002-07-22 at 10:32, Blake Barnett wrote: > As well as the answers Derek gave you there are other reasons. Debian > is the foundation for _ALL_ porting for XFree86. XFree86 is only > guaranteed to work on X86, Debian makes it work on 11 different > architectures, stop and think about that for a minute... > > The amount of patching and fixes that go into X on Debian is quite > extensive, it requires a LOT of regression testing and > cohttp://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2002/debian-devel-200204/msg01343.htmlmpatibility testing. In the case of KDE, it depends on X, that is the only reason it's not in unstable right now. To get the in-your-face scoop try debian's X strike force page: http://people.debian.org/~branden/ > > Very good explanation of this subject: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2002/debian-devel-200204/msg01343.html > > Just a warning... Branden Robinson (the Debian X maintainer) gets a lot > of crap about the X packages, and hence he throws it back in everyone's > face (rightly so IMHO) on his page, don't visit the site if you're > easily offended.. :) > > > On Sat, 2002-07-20 at 07:17, Voltage Spike wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Saturday 20 July 2002 12:21 am, Derek Neighbors wrote: > > > All you have to do is ask... > > > > > > For those that donet know you can get XFree86 4.2, Flash, Open Office and > > > many other things as Debian packages. > > > > > > http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~pc99/debian/kde3.html > > > > Thanks. I am quite thrilled that I never deleted my Debian partition so I > > will try this out later today. Is there any reason that these packages are > > not thrown into the unstable branch? > > > > I had searched through questions asking for KDE3 .deb files in Usenet, but > > none of the answers suggested the above site. Is this just a little know > > secret? > > > > - -- > > Voltage Spike > > ,,, > > (. .) > > - --ooO-(_)-Ooo-- > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) > > Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org > > > > iD8DBQE9OXEOpNoctRtUIRQRAi1uAJ9JlUAP33d5SK+41xBhQC80ueOmHQCeNXjF > > YSJe7uf+YMgB6ozkeMdtrUg= > > =mcOa > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > ________________________________________________ > > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- > Blake Barnett (bdb) > Sr. Unix Administrator > DevelopOnline.com office: 480-377-6816 > > Learning is a skill, you get better at it with practice. > > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- Blake Barnett (bdb) Sr. Unix Administrator DevelopOnline.com office: 480-377-6816 Learning is a skill, you get better at it with practice.