[PLUG] Debian woody

[Matt Wallace]

I been using unstable debian for so long that I don't exactly remember
what's in Potato versus Woody, but if you don't have them already, some
cool things in Woody:

New network configuration: each interfaces has an entry for it's settings
and you can bring each one up and down with ifup/ifdown.

Debconf: A menu-driven configuration system that makes configuring new
packages easier.

KDE2 was just added to woody.. it's pretty awesome.  As far as the
packages themselves, you just get newer, more up-to-date versions of the
software.  I've had a few minor issues with packages being broken (mostly
dependency stuff), but I was able to fix them and they were fixed by the
next time I apt-get dist-upgrade'd.  I'd definitely say go for
it.  Unstable in the context of Debian has a whole different meaning than
with other distros.

Matt

On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Brian Connelly wrote:

> I've been using Potato for a while now, and was wondering if any of you
> had good/bad experiences with Woody.  Is it worth updating?
> 
> x Brian Connelly
> x connelly@purdue.edu
> x http://www.vauban.uni-freiburg.de/~connelly
> 
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