general Debian questions

[James Miller <jamtat@mailandnews.com>]

I've begun using Debian after having spent most of my Linux "career"
(all 18 month of it!) on mostly Mandrake and Red Hat. I've come to
really like Debian, especially the apt-get installation and update
routine. I'm considering defecting to Debian. True, I was spared the
majority of Debian install problems by using the install-to-hard-disk
utility that was written for Knoppix. It worked quite well, actually. I
think it was the least painful Linux install I've been through - and
I've been through more than I can count. At any rate, before devoting
full alegiance to Debian, I thought I'd ask onlist some general feedback
on the distro, both pro and con. I use my computer strictly as a
workstation, though I am considering setting up a tiny home network on
the LTSP model - something about the "target system." I guess I'd like
to start off on Debian feedback asking some particulars about how and
how often packages are updated? I understand Debian tends to "run
behind" with respect to the other distros. As I understand it, new
releases of the OS itself occur with far less frequency than the distros
I'm used to. But the packages (what, under M$ systems, would be called
"3rd party apps," as I understand it), surely, must be upgraded with
greater frequency, are they not?

Thanks in advance for feedback on this issue.

James


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