Re: Current Sid vs Sarge
On (14/04/05 21:32), Pete wrote:
> To: debian-amd64@lists.debian.org
> From: Pete <peteracole@bigpond.com>
> Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 21:32:45 +1000
> Subject: Current Sid vs Sarge
>
> Hi all,
>
> Just wondering how the stability of Sid is at the moment compared with
> Sarge?
>
> I'm having issues with MPPE support in Sarge and I think I need to try a
> later kernel and ppp and the most straight forward way I can see to do
> this is to upgrade to Sid.
>
> My main conerns for stability are firefox, thunderbird, vmware GSX
> server (with appropriate patch and ia32 libs that is), and
> openoffice.org (chroot is fine). Oh, and I also use gnome rather than
> kde if that makes a difference.
Sid runs fine here since January, I use xfce4.2 (I found kde increasingly
clunky and a little unstable). Only issue you may have is flash in
firefox. I run OOo and firefox from the 32bit chroot as described in
the excellent amd64 howto.
Regards
Clive
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