Re: pcmcia

[Curt Howland <Howland@priss.com>]

I didn't say Sarge, I said Testing. He said Testing. Once Sarge is 
branched off, Testing will become completely unreliable and remain so 
for an unpredictable period.

Unstable has the latest kernels, which I took from his note to be a 
prerequisite. It also works quite well. It's "unstable" aspect merely 
means that updates aught to be done carefully and manually. If it 
doesn't work well for you, such is life.

I agree with you that Sarge is well past due. Sure I have opinions 
about how the installer could have been done that would have saved 
many months, but I'm neither a developer nor major contributor. I 
must, like the rest of us mere users, allow these volunteers to do 
what they see fit to deliver something they are satisfied with. I am 
pleased they do it at all.

In the mean time, I will recommend what works for the environment that 
is being asked about.

Curt-

On Tuesday 26 October 2004 10:24, Derek Broughton was heard to say:
> On Tuesday 26 October 2004 10:38, Curt Howland wrote:
> > First of all, "testing" is not really a distribution to trust.
> > There are always things going on that sometimes mean things don't
> > work.
> >
> > If you have a non-pcmcia network connection available go back to
> > zero and install "Unstable" if you want the latest kernels.
> > Autodetection
>
> ????  You declare testing to be untrustworthy, then recommend
> unstable?
>
> Sarge is well past ready for prime-time.   Sid isn't, and never can
> be. --
> derek

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