10 Oct 10:02
Another question about Debian repos
From: Christopher Howard <choward <at> indicium.us>
Subject: Another question about Debian repos
Newsgroups: gmane.org.user-groups.linux.aklug.general
Date: 2008-10-10 08:04:54 GMT
Subject: Another question about Debian repos
Newsgroups: gmane.org.user-groups.linux.aklug.general
Date: 2008-10-10 08:04:54 GMT
First I wanted to say thanks everyone for all the help on various issues. I'd like to specifically mention the advice on the Nvidia drivers. I tried the lastest binary and it installed without a problem. Also, thanks for the info on streaming servers, and those Icecast config files. I'm in the process of looking all that over, although I've temporarily met my needs with a cheap hack: I put my music files on a directory of one of my public servers, and then used simple scripts on my other machines that mount the directory as sshfs, so I can listen to the music from anywhere using any music player. (Overhead is a bit high -- with all that encryption/decryption going on. Probably should've used FTP.) I've been researching more into Debian's release cycle, to better acquaint myself with the distro. I like how they do things, with all the checks and testing. That stability and security is important to me (coming from some other distros whose repositories tended to be filled with a lot of buggy packages) even if the release cycle is a bit slow. I'm using the Lenny sources right now, and after Lenny is officially released I'll probably stick with Lenny until the next stable release. But here's my question: What if in the future there are one or two packages from testing or sid that I'd like to try, but I don't want the rest of my system relying on those branches? For example, say I wanted the lastest Amarok features, or I really needed one package that just wasn't available in stable. Do I need to download and manually install those packages from off of the Internet, or is there a way I can install those from the official repos without moving my entire system out of stable? -- Binary/unsupported file stripped by Ecartis -- -- Type: text/x-vcard -- File: choward.vcf
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