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From: Nicolas Alvarez
Date: 1 May 2008 14:03:58
Message: <481a060e$1@news.povray.org>


> It's been established that the version of povray that is on the ubuntu pms is
> buggy in a way that the one at povray.org is not. I'm also pretty sure that the
> ubuntu pms system is independent of that for SUSE-- you would have had (at least
> in 2006?) a different version of povray.
> 
> Q: does Debian have a separate pms? Does it have a version of povray without the
> bug related to folder set-up?  Does it have newer versions of povray or blender?
> 
> Motivation: I'm considering going back to Debian after seeing so much to love in
> Knoppix 5.3.1 compared to my updated Kubuntu HDD install.  If you know of a
> reason why that's a bogus comparison, I'm open to disabusement on that as well.
>  thanks.

Debian and Ubuntu use the same package management *software*; but each 
has its own repository of packages. Debian is famous for having outdated 
packages, at least on the 'stable' version of the distro :)

Debian stable has blender 2.42, Debian testing and unstable have 2.45.

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