Hello,

I am running a good Spanish Debian-based distro built by IBM and one of our local Universities.

The distro. ships with Gnome 2.2 by default, with a 2.4.18 kernel, although its apt routes point to the unstable trees (sid).

Just after installing, I have run

# apt-get update
# apt-get upgrade

which as a result have damaged Gnome 2.2 (at least). Main symptom:

All folders are "grey", showing no content.

Apparently the Gnome 2.2 tree has been "discontinued", and I am not at all sure what this means.

How come I use apt-get upgrade, Gnome 2.4 is shown whilst it gets downloaded, but doesn't get installed?.

To cut a long story short:

I am thinking of switching to Debian (from Red Hat), but would want to find a base distro that would get continuously upgraded, with no fresh installs ever again.

Is this at all possible?.

The only requirement: Gnome.

Any help greatly appreciated.

I am currently using Debian Testing (currently known as Sarge). Once a week or so I do an apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade, which upgrades all my packages to the latest testing version. This allows me to keep recently up-to-date, and it's very stable on my laptop and on my workstation. On my server I prefer keeping it very stable so there I have good old Woody.

I recommend installing Debian Stable (Woody) and then apt-get dist-upgrade to Testing. Testing currently has (it changes all the time) Gnome 2.2.

Håkan

Done, working like a charm

Thanks

Arthur1968