Re: Why Woody?

[Derek Broughton <dbroughton@netcom.ca>]

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.

Not quite.  You don't seem to know _what_ you're using.  You can't 
_upgrade_ to Potato from Woody, because it's a downgrade.
>
> What is the major difference between Woody and Potato, why is Woody
> better than Potato?

That's like saying what's the major difference between a 2001-model car 
and a 2002 model.  In many ways there _are_ no major differences, but 
some things will change significantly.  But Debian is a car with a whole 
lot of options, and you can buy a 2002 that has few noticeable 
differences from the 2001 model.  Or you can go whole hog and install 
everything, in which case you'd be a long time reading the changes, let 
alone getting us to tell you what they are :-)
> 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 

That's OK, so are we :-)  You either have 2.2r3 or Woody, but not both. 
Woody is 3.0, according to the (sort-of) release announcement at 
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2002/debian-devel-announce-200204/msg00004.html. 
 We tend to refer to releases like Potato, Woody, & Sid, or to Stable, 
Testing and Unstable (respectively). Few people actually pay much 
attention to the release numbers.

So Potato is stable but OLD.  Woody is still Testing, but it's unlikely 
that much will change in the next month.

> 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.

It's stable but OLD (oh, I already said that :-) ).  It's just not worth 
installing it - especially if you are already running Woody.
>  
> Has anyone used dpkg-reconfigure xcommon-xfree86 on a Toshiba Libretto 
> 70CT and remembers how much memory they used for the graphics card and 
> which mouse they selected.

You should start a new thread and ask that specifically (but you won't 
be able to use dpkg-reconfigure if you install Potato - it goes with 
XFree 4.x and Potato only has XFree 3.3.6
--
derek


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