I use Debian Testing on my primary desktop and do a
full system update about once a month.
--- tim hall <tech(a)glastonburymusic.org.uk> wrote:
On Saturday 11 February 2006 04:11, Erik de Castro
Lopo was like:
> On 2/11/06, Erik de Castro Lopo
<mle+la(a)mega-nerd.com> wrote:
> > libsndfile0 is at least three years
old.
Everyone I know of is using
libsndfile1-dev
Isn't three years old standard for debian? .....
I'll bite.
Debian stable has libsndfile1:
http://pdo.debian.net/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?
keywords=libsndfile&searchon=names&subword=1&version=stable&release=all
and that Debian stable was released in July 2005.
People who have never taken the time to learn
Debian would probably
be surpirsed just how good it actually is.
Yeah, and I'll chew. Three years isn't standard EVEN
FOR DEBIAN, OK? Sarge
took this long to get out of the door, granted. I
understand this was a
tongue in cheek remark, but these idle remarks tend
to get built on and get
taken more seriously by some than they should.
So, at risk of being Utterly Boring on this subject
- Debian's idea of
'stable' is to be conservatively rock solid for
production servers & newbies.
Most Desktop users use 'testing' or 'sid', Everyone
in Debian knows this and
works accordingly. 'Testing' runs a couple of months
or so behind the leading
edge, which for me is just enough time to read
bugreports and be aware of
potential breakages in advance. For example, I'm
still using stable for
mission critical work, until etch settles down a
bit. So I'm still using
Linux-2.6.12, this kernel was compiled on 23 June
2005. So that's about a
year behind. DeMuDi 'testing' has 2.6.14. There are
lots of sources for
backports and unofficial builds if you need to keep
more up to date, which
means rosegarden-dssi and ardour-0.99 on the music
front and of course you
can build your own if you need to be tracking CVS or
whatever. The purpose of
a distribution is to provide a solid foundation, I'm
perfectly happy with
having to do a little work if I want the latest
toys.
I know I do a lot of pom-pom waving for Debian.
There's a reason for this. ;)
--
cheers,
tim hall
http://glastonburymusic.org.uk/tim
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