On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 18:29, Nick wrote: > Alot of you on this mailing list have told me to stay with Woody rather than upgrade to Potato because Woody will eventually be the stable version. > What is the major difference between Woody and Potato, why is Woody better than Potato? > > 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. > > I only started with Debian Woody 2.2r3 over a week ago and although I didn't find it too difficult to install and have already picked up some of the lingo purely by searching the Debian web site and performing copious amounts of searches on Google I have had a few problems in X-Windows with my display and mouse. > There is no such release as Debian Woody 2.2r3. Debian Woody is 3.0 but it has not yet been released, althogh there will soon be a release. 2.2 is Potato, so you infact have a potato installation, and if you are concerned about security (Are you connected to the internet? If so, then you should be), then upgrading to 2.2r5 would be a very good idea. The only updates should be for security fixes and major bugs, so the upgrade should be fairly small and straigtforward. The other course that is open for you is to upgrade to woody (Which is currently in testing and has not yet been released, but for most people, it is stable :). This is a major upgrade (Nearly every package that you have installed will be upgraded, and some new ones will need to be installed). You could do that now, or later when woody has been released. Note carefully though that security fixes can currently take some time to get into woody, so if you are concerned about security, but don't follow the security mailing lists and don't want to upgrade by hand, then you probably want to wait for woody to be released. -- David Stanaway
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