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Re: A suggestion



Le Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 01:44:56AM +1300, Chris Bannister a écrit :
> 
> Unfortunately, many people new to Debian/Linux get the impression that
> testing is perfectly suitable for a desktop system.

Maybe because they have read Debian's website?

 "things should not break as badly as in unstable or experimental
 distributions"
http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/index.en.html

 "The unstable distribution is where active development of Debian
 occurs. Generally, this distribution is run by developers"
http://www.debian.org/releases/index.en.html

There is nothing in these pages that warns against the use of Testing on
a desktop system, except of course that Debian "primarily recommends
using" Etch.

There are three alternative options for escaping Etch's bugs (for
instance white-on-white selections in Evince):

 - Backporting some packages by hand, but this requires skill.
 - Using backports.org, but it is unofficial.
 - Using Testing or Sid.

If Debian wants to issue stronger warnings for those using Testing on
the desktop, maybe mentionning that it is also a development tool and it
is not inteded for normal use would do the job…

Have a nice day,

-- 
Charles Plessy
http://charles.plessy.org
Wakō, Saitama, Japan


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