newbie user/root dycotomy

[Alf-Ivar Holm]

Douglas Alves <alves5 at telcel.net.ve> writes:

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

I guess the first entry in the Rosegarden FAQ answers this:

	1.1.  Do I have to be using a particular desktop environment
              (KDE or whatever)?

	No. Rosegarden uses the KDE libraries for various common
	controls, but you can run it under any window manager or
	graphical environment you like with no change in
	functionality.

> 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?

You will be using Hoary stuff only, so until Hoary is released it is
considered unstable.  Warty is released, so only fixes are added to
that one, no new functionality.  (There are some backports project and
other places (e.g. Debian) where you can get packages for Warty, but
that is unsuported stuff.)

>    I know Hoary is for people who want to try things out, but does that
> mean NONE of the base-packages is stable?

No, but something which is stable now might be broken by a future
update - until Hoary is released, so that is why all of it is
considered unstable, or - not considered stable.  After that (the
release of Hoary) the base packages should be more and more stable as
Hoary then will be in the state that Warty is in now, and you would
have to go to the then more hairy branch to get new functionality.

(What happens with Warty updates when Hoary is released I'm not sure
of, but I guess I can find the answer at ubuntulinux.org if I tried.)

        Affi