On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 05:59:08AM -0400, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > I am a newbie to Debian, a Slackware convert, but not a newbie otherwise. I > compile my own kernels since I use a set of kernel patches to support speech > synthesizer to the console, called "speakup". A precompiled kernel for 2.4.27 > package got me started with an installation disk, but I quickly got me a 2.6.11 > source package, patched it for speech access, installed it on Sarge, and then > went on a binge adding stuff to my system, like a kid in a candy store. > > I recently read the FAQ by the guy at Cornell (forgive me for not looking up > your name) and was persuaded that it made sense for me to move on over to > unstable rather than following Sarge to stable or staying with testing, and as > I posted here, that upgrade went smooth as silk. But now I see I have put > myself beyond the reach of the Debian security team, without a graceful way to > go back. > > Oh well. I will just have to live on the edge and keep an eye out for problems. > (okay, an ear!) > Chuck, Please be sure and don't top post. It is considered bad list ettiquette :-) If you are running a regular desktop, chances are that: 1) You are behond a firewall/router of some sort. 2) You are not really using it in a mutliuser environment (i.e., giving out accounts to random people you don't know). 3) Are able to inconvenience yourself/your limited users (e.g., family) if necessary. The people that really need to worry are those that are trying to run a weg hosting business with Sid servers. There you would need a fill time person to stay on top of security updates. However, with Sid it is not usually so bad since the maintainers usually upload the security updates in a fairly reasonable time frame. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr
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