Time to move from Red Hat to Debian? [LWN.net]

Time to move from Red Hat to Debian?

Posted Nov 6, 2003 13:47 UTC (Thu) by ladislav (guest, #247)
In reply to: Time to move from Red Hat to Debian? by evgeny
Parent article: Time to move from Red Hat to Debian?

the answer is either install them manually (and then what's the point of apt-get and all the greatness behind it) or to move to testing/unstable

There is another option: look for backports to stable. This is one example, (SpamAssassin 2.60 is there) but if your desired package is not listed, you'll be unlucky not to find it with Google. Many of those backports are in fact maintained by the Debian developers themselves.

Of course, this is not an ideal situation either, but if you desperately need a new feature, it will beat the other two options you mentioned.

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