Mark Trickett <marktrickett@bigpond.com> wrote:
I have chosen to install Debian (6.0) on the fresh desktop PC, and on a later Acer laptop. I invoked the Evolution backup on this laptop, then restored on the desktop, never having set up Evolution prior. It now will not recognise the analog modem ppp connection. I expect to have to edit config files and get ppp to set up as the default routing, but also in backing up and restoring Evolution, there are some settings that came over and are inappropriate, not least the old hostname.
You might wish to consider migrating away from Evolution; apparently it's due to be deprecated and replaced by the Gnome developers anyway, so unless someone takes it over it might be reaching the end of its development road.
I would appreciate comments and suggestions from others who have made such a transition as that. I am expecting that the networking was also where the fault lies with updating Synaptic. I tried to use Google+, only to be told that the default Iceweasle was not recent enough. I could have taken the link on the webpage for Firefox, but I would prefer to have everything logged through apt/synaptic rather than trying to hand install and then maintain and keep up to date. That is a big part of why I have chosen Debian, and the administrative tools associated with Debian.
Your best option would be to run debian Testing, I suspect, which is moving closer by the day to a release. That will give you Firefox/Iceweasel 10, and you can get 19.0 from the experimental repository.