Re: How unstable is unstable?
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On Thu, 22 Apr 1999 18:06:29 -0500 (CDT), Christian Dysthe wrote:
>So my question is: Does unstable mean you will have all kinds of crashes and >unexpected behavior, or does it mean that some programs might have more bugs >than running in the stable distribution?
Unstable means that at any time a package could be a show stopper. Show
stopper being, "Got a rescue disk?"
In the past I've had an unstable package cause severe problems in my
machine that I needed to back out of with a rescue disk. Syslogd/klogd
wouldn't work and as a result, people couldn't log in as root. More
recently, when potato was moving to glib2.1, a LOT of things broke as they
were compiled against the older version. I think that has been resolved but
I've not been around my server lately to give it a try.
Unstable, for the most part, is stable. I followed it from Hamm frozen
through the first stages of potato with only that one problem. The thing is,
when things break, they *can* break bad and you need to have the knowledge
and skill to back out of the updates and repair the system. IE, it is called
unstable for a reason, use some common sense, and ride it at your own risk.
;)
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