On Tuesday 06 May 2003 19:13, Bob Nielsen wrote: > I've been a Debian user for about 7 years and have been running the > "testing" version since it began. I have yet to experience any > problems. Just change your sources.list to point to testing instead of > stable, run 'apt-get update ; apt-get dist-upgrade' and you should be > fine. Occasionally you will find some packages temporarily "held back" > because the dependencies may not yet have been added to sarge. It is a > good idea to update/upgrade fairly often as new/revised packages > migrate from unstable to testing almost daily. It's a good idea to use upgrade instead of dist-upgrade (will not remove packages). Yes, it warns before removing the packages, but the enter key is so big and inviting sometimes... And, I'm not with Debian so long, but occasionally there *are* problems in testing. X does not run in some configurations at the moment, for instance, and there's no working gnome-terminal in testing thanks to the folks not handling the gnome2 transition. Bottom line: I run a quite aggressive testing/unstable mix since a few years, but I generally feel that I know what I'm doing. I feel also with testing, you should know quite well what you are doing and be able to handle emergency situations. But if this is ok, testing is completely useable if you can handle your security updates yourself. -- vbi -- random link of the day: http://fortytwo.ch/sienapei/moohaizo
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