On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 01:36:00PM +0200, ???ek Kry?tof wrote: > I agree, but only partially. > > look - STABLE is too outdated for desktop, TESTING is often broken more than unstable (mainly missing dependancies or completely missing apps (e.g. K3b was absent from testing for many months!)). SID appears to be the best choice for Debian desktop (regardless to what official policy states) and as such it is chosen by many. I agree with you on this. I've been running straight sid desktop for over a year now and its great. > > Yes, I am ready do deal with minor breakages. However, X not starting, KDE ot starting ... this is not a minor problem but a fatal show stopper. This proves lack of software quality testing in the Debian release model. In my opinion the released Xorg 7 package belongs still to experimental. > Well, I don't know the policy for experimental, but based on a few anecdotal things, I think we've been experiencing a particularly good run in sid for a while and maybe we've been lulled into thinking its better than we should. A
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