I have not used synaptic much. Kpackage is much prettier. If anyone debian is
going to be the distro of choice then someone should remaster a Knoppix disk
in full
unstable so that the issue is not pressent. If someone is setting up a server
or what for then they would probaly not want all the bagage that comes with
knoppix so they would want to use a bare bones debian install disk.

Debian unstabe is fine for (IMHO) for anything other than a server. Unstable
just means somewhat new version. Gnome on stable is ugly/slow while unstable
is faster (IMHO) and much prettier.

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On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Derek Neighbors wrote:

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> Rob Wultsch wrote:
> | There are no significant issues if you know what you are doing. Either a
> | stable or unstable package will work. If
> | apt-get install whatever
> | does not work, then
> | apt-get install -t unstable whatever
> | will.
> 
> Unless synaptic has the ability to do this, assume it can not be done.
> (I have never tried)  This is because we can't be giving obscure command
> lines out to new users and expect them to feel warm and fuzzy.
> 
> | For that matter someone could easily make a pure unstable knoppix disk
> | rather easily. Just do an
> | apt-get disrt-upgrade
> | perhaps this would be the best solution?
> 
> I am not sure "unstable" is the best thing for a newbie.  They should be
> able to run "stable" fairly well unless they have some new fangled
> hardware that isn't supported.
> 
> - -Derek
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