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Re: Fast pace
by Spark on Sunday 09/Sep/2001, @09:25

It's not?

merlin:/home/spark# apt-cache show kdebase
Package: kdebase
Priority: optional
Section: x11
Installed-Size: 16456
Maintainer: Ivan E. Moore II <rkrusty@debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Version: 4:2.2.0.20010822-1

You just have to use the "unstable" branch, easy as that.
And no, you system won't become unstable because you do that. ;)
It's just that you will NEVER find anything in stable that isn't tested out for months and you'll never find anything in "testing", that is just packaged (A few days after usually).
So use unstable but don't do a dist-upgrade, just fetch all the sotware you need.
You'll get all the latest and greatest packages, nicely packaged by over 500 dedicated maintainers, mostly a few days (or even faster) after the source is released.
KDE and Gnome packages are usually available at the day of their release.
I never have to compile from source, unless I want to try out a CVS version or a 0.0.1 app in development.

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