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Originally Posted by Katsunami
I can install Debian Stable, update it to it's latest point including the latest kernel fairly easily, but then the hoop-jumping begins to get newer versions of the desktop environment, applications, and so on. To be honest, I think it's %^#%^ that the operating system and applications can't be updated separately without going through great trouble. IMHO, it defeats the purpose of modularity.
Ah well... that's another topic. Maybe I should post about it in the rant thread.
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That is a rant about debian and their not keeping up to date, though. And the obvious solution is to become the project maintainer and get it updated.
DE is a big part of the OS, so it's hardly surprising hoops are required -- unless someone does it for you. now, applications you can sometimes find as standalone binaries, depending on the maintainer.
PPAs often have the updated version.
Personally, I am running Arch Linux, and the updates are pretty darn fast. Bleeding edge distro and all... plus I don't ever need to do a dist-upgrade. (Instead I have to do magic with every pacman -Syu.
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