On Wednesday 17 June 2009, pavithran s wrote:
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Ronygnulinuxist@gmail.com wrote:
'apt-get upgrade' will only upgrade installed packages to their latest version, within the scope of the existing distro.
Yes *within* the scope of the existing distro . Every distribution has certain aims and release cycles. If you want bleeding edge You have some choices *Use Ubuntu *Use Gentoo *Compile packages from SVN
Unless some sense is knocked into some brain dead developers in debian and ubuntu, i for one will stop using both. One of the developers of a note taking app -tomtom or somesuch - ( we know how important note taking is to the survival of the whole universe), is dragging in the whole patent infested Mono library into debian and Ubuntu. 40+ MB of patent crap for a note taking app???. Something has gone real rotten in debian.
Of course one can go about getting rid of it, but if a distro is going to be as brain dead, one might as well ditch it at the first opportunity.