input needed on Debian

[Collins]

On Friday 19 December 2003 21:35, Gary wrote:
> I spent a lot of time with RH, and switched back to SUSE about 8 months
> ago, It is fine, excellent distro. I was thinking about moving some
> personal desktops, and maybe a mail/dns server or two over to Debian.
> Don't want Fedora as an offering, not a test bed for RH's enterprise, for
> me, plus poor life cycle. So, I was thinking about Debian..
>
> Woody is the stable version, Sarge their testing v.. It seems to me that
> one of the disadvantages of Debian is that Woody uses older versions of
> programs. If I use the newer Sarge, from what I understand, Deb does not
> support security updates on Sarge, only Woody... Is this true?
>
> Any input / thoughts appreciated.

A really simple way to get started with debian is to get a Knoppix cdrom and 
install to disk - badda-bim you're done and ready to learn about updating 
debian.

Or, Leon will jump in here soon, there is a good commercial distro.  The name 
escapes me.

-- 
Collins