Libranet fonts ?

[Mike Reinehr]

At the risk of being rude by jumping into the middle of your conversation, I 
would like to say just that I have been running a testing/unstable system for 
the better part of a year, now, with few complaints. For those applications 
where I want to run a more current application than what's available in a 
debian package, I just install them to /usr/local/, in particular, 
firebird/firefox & java.

Just my $0.02 worth. :-)

mike

On Tuesday 17 February 2004 04:21 pm, Michael Hipp wrote:
> Leon Goldstein wrote:
> > The Debian security updates are reportedly kept current, but since I
> > don't run a server this is of little interest to me.
>
> Do they actually keep them current, or just backport patches to the old
> versions? I don't know, but everyone else seems to do the backporting
> thing 95% of the time.
>
> > What particular apps do you need to be cutting edge?
>
> Well, all of them! ;-)
>
> Not really, of course. The thing is ... Linux apps, unlike Windows,
> actually deliver increased value or actual bug fixes with each new
> release (the whole stable/unstable thing could almost be said to be
> reversed). So why not have the latest and greatest. I certainly don't do
> this with everything or even most things, but don't want to be limited
> to things that are months old. So the predictable answer is to compile
> from source, but spending hours futzing around with config options is a
> painful endeavor.
>
> Just a few examples of things that I looked at:
> - KDE is at 3.1.5
> - k3b is at 10.3 (4/2003)
> - Firebird is at 0.7
> - Thunderbird is at 0.4
> - Xfce appears to be at 4.0.0_cvs (and won't run)
>
> To be fair, I found several that were at current version. Several that
> were at the official stable version but where most everyone has been
> running some beta release for a very long time. And several that were
> not available at all (one of which seems like an egregious omission:
> wxWindows).
>
> I have several projects coming up that may involve varying things
> (databases, web authoring, old DOS apps, wxWindows custom apps, embedded
> systems, etc.) and can't be sure what tools I'll need. But I'd like to
> be able to get them and keep them current with a minimum of fuss.
>
> Apologies for whining ... I like Libranet 2.8.1 so far. But even tho my
> beloved Red Hat no longer wants my business, giving it up is not
> something done easily :-)
>
> Michael
>
>
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