First off I would say simply try apt-get removing most of the odd 3rd party peices of software you listed in your email. Particularly Skype and Flash. See if you can go a few days without either of them. Next step would be simply to try a more recenter kernel (though honestly 3.2.0 is fairly stable on most of the machine I've got Wheezy running on right now). You can read up about Debian Backports or simply learn about compiling your own. Google should provide a multitude of guides on either subject. I would not recommend jumping to Jessie (Debian Testing) just yet, maybe hold off another month or two for folks to get past the fanfare of a new stable release happening. I think you'll find much of the same as Stable except with the few newer things being slightly broken in some special way. Keep in mind that Stable was Testing as of a few months ago, it's still fairly "fresh" or so they say. Currently I'm running Debian Sid (no Flash, Oracle Java, Skype), which in all honesty has provided me with less stability problems over the past year, but more "ho crap apt-get dist-upgrade just puked all over everything!" issues to deal with than you'll find in Jessie or less so with Wheezy. Your milage and want to sysadmin your own machine may vary. Also a note about bugs, you should always file bugs, always always always, regardless of what version you're running, always. But only after you do a quick search to make sure your issue hasn't already been filed. Always file bugs, even for the old stuff. Noting it down is better than not, it might help with fixing a similar bug in the future. And remember kids, filing good bug reports is half the contributing to FOSS battle! -- Rubin rubin@starset.net
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