BioTube wrote:Let's not be rude to him - especially since nobody here's given a working answer. As a matter of fact, the capability already exists to do what he wants - look up debootstrap and schroot.
Thanks. Iooks very helpful.
Perhaps you could dual-boot? Or run VM's?fanotto wrote:This is the question for many Debian users. We use Debian because of stability but want more up to date software in different areas. The key to faster stable versions of software, by large part, is more testing of new unstable software. So I would want a subsystem on my computer called latest. Latest because in this system I can install the latest version of libraries and applications, and without hurting my stable Debian. With ease. I thinking maybe some sort of Gentoo system on top of Debian where anybody with a little knowledge can make and submit ebuilds (debuilds?) without waiting for an official package maintainer. Maintream users could with ease install these builds. Everybody could send their bug-reports upstream and to Debian package maintainers. I think source distribution seems helpful because hackers might browse the code for errors, having the code on their computer after all. And the build files would be faster to upload/edit, than to manage compiled binaries for the different archs. Have to admit I do not know the apt-build system very well. It might or might not fit my suggestions over.
Personally I would allways have latest Gimp, Blender, Code::Blocks, and a few games. Others would have other applications. Some would make Gnome or KDE, others maybe make the base/kernel and fire it up as virtual os. I think, if done right, this kind of testing in a Debian net-tools-package system really could help Debian with faster progression and more up-to-date releases, yet stable as ever.
I like it. I am not particularly fond of the idea of jumping on the testing or Sid update treadmill just so I can have more recent versions of a few programs. I think something like this could be very helpful to people who are still on dial-up.fanotto wrote: Can people stop pointing to Sid, Testing or other distros. Do you like my proposal or do you not? Why?