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Author: der.hans
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Subject: InstallFest decisions
Am 13. Sep, 2003 schw=E4tzte Rob Wultsch so:

> Exception IMHO should be made for everyone for office applications, I
> think that those in stable are rather long in the tooth.


1.1 is backported to woody, but not in testing :).

> From what I have read about Gnome 2.4 on slashdot it sounds buggy at
> this point.


Well, they've got 5 weeks to fix it. Break out the whips... ;-)

> IMHO unstable is far more stable and bug free than any Windows
> enviroment, though there are a very fews issues. For servers itwould


I would agree, but the upgrade path requires some expert knowledge, so I
think it's something best avoided for newbies.

> also have security issues that computers maintainer would have to deal
> with. But for desktops I think that stable is inappropriate as most of
> the software is rather dated.


stable is fine for most people, if we get some important backports,
especially X. We need to decide which backports, though.

ciao,

der.hans
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