Re: What Linux edition we should chose?

On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Adrian von Bidder <avbidder@fortytwo.ch> wrote:
> On Monday 31 May 2010 10.29:22 Michal Szymanski wrote:
>> for Debian sometimes we had to wait many weeks for
>> official packages.
>
> Experiemntal packages can be installed directly into Debian unstable (sid)
> installations and can often be recompiled rather trivially into Debian
> testing.  Depending on how old Debian stable is, compiling there may take a
> bit more work (especially for building the stuff depending on the not so
> slowly moving targets like python, ruby etc.) but is certainly doable.

As many other people have this idea, you can just re-use their
back-porting work: backports.org
Never had a quality issue with these packages and updates are quickly
available. YMMV.

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Kind regards,
Mathieu