Re: debian distro and helix gnome

[Andrew Atkinson <andrew brighton-rock freeserve co uk>]

* Eric Gillespie, Jr. (epg@pobox.com) [000607 19:17]:
> On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 10:26:59PM +0000,
> Andrew Atkinson <andrew@brighton-rock.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> > I've been happily using gnome on my modified RH5.2 system for
> > quite a while now but I'm looking to upgrade to a new distro
> > and would like to try debian.
> 
> I agree, going from Red Hat to Debian is definitely an upgrade.

That's not quite what I meant ;-)

> I would suggest that you run unstable (that's really a misnomer;
> i've been running unstable since i first started using Debian,
> and i've never had any problems; during a period where breakage
> is going on, i just refrain from updating), but i see that you
> are in the UK, where i believe you have to pay by the minute for
> local phone calls, making the constant downloading  impractical.

The situation in the UK is changing although I'm still paying call
charges.

> If you can't stick with unstable, you'd better wait for 2.2
> rather than getting the current stale release. By the time 2.2 is
> out, i'm sure Helix will have packages ready for it.

Many thanks for your reply.

Regards
-Andrew