Re: Why Woody?

[Chris Howells <chris@chrishowells.co.uk>]

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On Monday 08 April 2002 12:29 am, Nick wrote:
> I am confused now, I spent a few hours downloading Potato 2.2r5 to upgrade
> Woody 2.2r3 with the view of having the most stable release but from what I
> have been told through this mailing list this is not the case so I am now
> reluctant to install Potato even though on the download page it does say it
> is stable.

You're extremely confused about Debian version numbers/names.

Potato is 2.2 (r0,r1,r2,r3,r4,r5, or r6)

Potato is currently considered "stable". It is completely frozen in every way 
(and has been since 2000) apart from security bug fixes. Since it has been 
completely frozen since 2000, all of the software is extremely out of date.

For potato, the number after the r signifies that is a release with important 
security bug fixes. Since 2000, 7 releases (2.2 r0 - 2.2 r6) of potato have 
been made.

Woody (aka "testing") _will_ be 3.0. It is not fully frozen yet. The software 
is pretty up to date.

Even though woody is not _considered_ "stable", it is pretty damn stable. I 
would suggest it's more stable than many rival distributions. 

> This seems to have worked and allowed me to run X-Windows but my mouse is
> very strange it seems to have long delays when moving the cursor around the
> screen and I am concerned my display is still not setup correctly although
> I really have no idea it could just be the mouse.

Sounds like the mouse is using the wrong protocol. Just edit 
/etc/X11/XF86Config-4 in a text editor. It should be a one line change.

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