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Old 21st February 2009
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Originally Posted by nihonto View Post
If the applications are to old for your needs, you can give -testing or even -sid a try (the two other Debian "flavours"). I have run -sid for several years on my desktop. And if one is a little bit cautious, it will (almost) work without problems.
I did try Debian Testing once, but I found it to be a little too bleeding edge for me. I would get wierd dependency issues for which I had neither the patience nor expertise to resolve. When Wireshark broke I finally gave up on Testing.
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