newbie user/root dycotomy

[Douglas Alves]

On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 07:54 +0100, ulrich steffens wrote:

>       get yourself some coffee, start smoking and upgrade to hoary. 
>       for example, hoary contains the newest rosegarden-version. 
> 
> or
> 
>       get yourself some coffee, start smoking and go CLI ;)
>       learn how to compile your apps if you always want to be up to
>       date. often its not only the app thats important to upgrade, 
>       these apps mostly depend also on the newest libs.
>       so you can't use a 'bleeding edge' app and old libs anyways.
> 
> but either way you go: you can't avoid the command line. its linux.
> 
> hope this helps ;)
>  ulrich

Ulrich:
        2 Questions:

1) Synaptic lists RoseGarden4 in Warty's universe, but it says it's for
KDE. Does Hoary's RoseGarden come for Gnome?

2) Being a newbie (thirsty to learn, though) I'm keeping to Warty out of
prudence. Tell me something about these releases: if I install Hoary,
will it start out with all the Warty stable stuff, or will I be
installing unstable software from the beginning?
   I know Hoary is for people who want to try things out, but does that
mean NONE of the base-packages is stable?

My career profile is in computer science, but being a Windoze slave for
many years has dulled my senses. I want to get up on my feet again with
Linux and dust off my programming gloves! I just landed at Troy and
haven't burned my ships yet!

appreciate your teaching, guys