Re: debian distro and helix gnome

[Telsa Gwynne <hobbit aloss ukuu org uk>]

On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 05:01:53PM -0500 or thereabouts, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 10:26:59PM +0000,
> Andrew Atkinson <andrew@brighton-rock.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> I agree, going from Red Hat to Debian is definitely an upgrade.
> 
> > However, if I want to purchase debian on CD (say from
> > www.linuxemporium.co.uk) I find I can buy 2.1 with a note to
> > say that 2.2 is iminent _but_ helix has packaged gnome for 2.3.
> 
> 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.

Luckily there are people in the UK who will burn CDs of what is
about to be released as potato (which I guess is 2.2?) and post 
them to you for the cost of the CDs and postage. The Debian 
website has a list of people who will do this. Big help when it's
expensive to be online a lot (or when you get automatically dropped
every two hours, which is what at least one provider does).

I have heard from people who are running potato that the Helix
stuff will work on it happily even though it was designed for
woody, which is the most "unstable" stuff. (I think. I've never
seen the Toy Story film the names came from, so I get them 
dreadfully confused.)

Telsa