On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 03:43:29PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 03-Nov-03, 14:21 (CST), Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com> wrote: > > <insert usual rant on how useless stable is for desktop and how testing > > is even worse than unstable> > > Oh, not this crap again. Or perhaps you're contending that I've not > gotten anything done at work in the last two years using my "useless" > Debian stable desktop. > > Hint: there's more to "useful" than running the latest version of > everything. Particularly for a sys admin, who I'd expect to be heavily > command line oriented, and who doesn't need the latest 3-d games or dvd > player[1]. It would be helpful if Debian could even be installed on machines newer than about 2 years old. Neither my KT400 based machine nor my i875P based machine could be installed using the standard Debian boot-floppies. I had to resort to using Knoppix with debootstrap. So no Debian stable really is not an option for a large portion of users. At least anyone who has a machine newer than when the kernel on b-f was last updated in Woody's case is kernel 2.4.18 from Feb 25 2002. Chris Cheney
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