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Re: Running testing? -- read this.



On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 10:02:13AM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote:

> So?  I've been using testing for years, and have found it to be
> remarkably stable - it's remarkable precisely because it IS 'testing'.
>  Sometimes (rarely) things break, but that's something I prefer to
> live with so that I can have an up-to-date system.  The current
> 'stable' is relatively up to date, as it's fairly recent, but there
> tends to be a long period between stable releases.

And in fact, for (using a number I just pulled out of thin air) 90% of the
time I've been using Debian, going back to Slink, Stable has been so
obsolete as to be hard to use for anything but some servers.
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