[PLUG] Debian 3.0, .deb application availability.

[Michael Montagne]

I'm getting mighty impatient waiting for KDE3.0.  But generally unstable
and testing are not all *that* far behind AFAIK.  And I finally got
brave enough to go to the maintainer's sites and upgrade an expendable
machine to Gnome2 and KDE3.  Can't wait to get home to see 'em.



>On 31/07/02, from the brain of Eli Stair tumbled:

> I've been meaning to ask someone who uses it, perhaps you do...
> 
> How is 3.0?  My last experience was with 2.2r2, which got hosed
> by an attempted Progeny upgrade.  It was still beta, I knew what
> I was getting into so I'm not complaining.
> 
> My main complaint with Debian, and a sticking point with any
> package-based distro, is that it _seemed_ that popular (read:
> new) .debs were always months behind release of the software.
> There wasn't enough community support behind packaging apps
> in .deb format, thus no resource equivalent to rpmfind.net.
> 
> Has that aspect changed much?  Other than that issue I found
> it to be superb.
> 
> /eli
> 
> DISCLAIMER:
> I'm not trolling for anything here.  I'm only mentioning one
> aspect of an otherwise great distribution.  Merely a comparison
> to services/availability from other vendors.  
> 
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> \
> On 31 Jul 2002 14:32:47 -0700
> karlheg at hegbloom.net (Karl M. Hegbloom) wrote:
> > 
> > Would anyone like a Debian CD?
> > 
> > -- 
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