Re: debian unstable, stable enough?
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On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 07:28:19AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
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> > Yes if you have fun living on the edge. Yes, if you have enough time on
> > your hands to fix a breakage now and then.
>
> But isn't Windows like that? I *know* that Mandrake "stable" is
> like that.
>
> IOW, how much do you know about managing a Debian system, since
> *something* (big, small, middle) will break every month.
a well...that can happen everywhere, though it is not that common with
debian stable...
one of the two machines running sarge at home does have some problems
(keeps muting the soundcard for some unknown reason)...
and last week a (security) update broke my system completly
(seems that the compute for some reason resartet right in the middle of
the libc6 upgrage...)
> > Yes, if you take regular
> > backups of your important data.
>
> Really? Nothing that bad has ever happened to me.
you have been luky...
even though i hardly have data loses
(sometimes program bugs, sometimes files deleted by accident, once a kernel
bug, and two or three times hw failure....
so backups are _always_ a good idea....
and not a great problem nowadays...
harddisks are cheap and a simple cron script can easyly create backups
with several statets fully accessible for you while only really storing
the diffs using cp --link and rsync
(ok i don't keep backups for some data but that is because it is data i
don't really care about if it is lost...)
yours
Albert
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Albert Dengg <a_d@gmx.at>
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