[plug] When is the next installfest?

[Craig Ringer]

James Devenish wrote:

>>I think you'll find Debian behind the pack in terms of packaging the
>>latest versions of everything.
> 
> Debian packages a lot of the latest versions, but there are some
> big-name items (e.g. XFree86) that aren't mainstream.

Debian _unstable_ and _testing_ do. Debian stable only just got gtk2 
before release, and the included gtk2 version is too old for basically 
anything to work with it. I think XFree86 is at 4.1 in woody.

I must agree with Simon Scott on this: I see very little appeal to 
Debian if your reason for the distro change is newer software and easier 
lib upgrades. I actually find RH Fedora to be very good in this regard; 
I've had very little trouble dropping in updated libs in the (rare) 
cases when I need them.

Craig Ringer