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"Peter A. Peterson II" wrote:
> Quoting Stephen Boulet:
> > "Peter A. Peterson II" wrote:
> > > Quoting Stephen Boulet:
> > > > I've read (http://kde.debian.net) that kde2.1.x is in woody, but
> > > > that doesn't seem to be true. Anyone know where I can get it?
>
> > > It appears to be in sid.
> >
> > What's sid?
>
> Debian's releases are named after Toy Story characters, and start
> unstable, then get "frozen", and then they become stable and the old
> stable is deprecated. I believe the versions to date have been:
> buzz, rex, bo, hamm, slink, potato, woody, and now sid.
>
> Potato is now stable, and woody is in limbo as "testing" (a strange
> not-quite-yet-frozen distro), and now sid is the bleeding edge. Don't
> use sid and expect it to work quite right... :) You might also not have
> non-us or contrib sources listed in your sources.list -- this will keep
> out certain packages that are available, but aren't qualified as "in
> Debian." An example of this would be the shareware first episode to the
> GPL'ed Quake I engine.
>
> You can actually refer to the distros by "name" in your
> /etc/apt/sources.list, but can also use the stable, frozen, unstable
> names too.
>
> Peter
So, as far as the sources.list file goes, potato == stable, woody ==
testing, and sid == unstable?
Do you have a favorite mirror you could recommend? Thanks.
-- Stephen
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