Re: Potato

[David Wright <d.wright@open.ac.uk>]

Quoting Nate Duehr (nate@natetech.com):
> It's not all that stable if you're keeping up with the upgrades and
> changes constantly being released.  Major stuff has been broken (and then
> later fixed) recently by updated packages. 
> 
> If you get one up and running with *exactly* what you need and aren't
> going to use the package systems to upgrade it anymore from that point
> until it's more stable or until you have another machine you can check
> stuff on, DON'T run mission-critical stuff on it.  
> 
> My opinion, but one I've seen here many times.  Unstable means unstable.
> Period.  And honestly, my critical slink machines do a great job...

and the original question:
> > 
> > Anyone using the Potato release on a machine that needs to be up.  How
> > stable is it at this point?

Surely the point is that potato *isn't* a release (yet). So how
stable (lay sense) it is depends on the moment you chose to download
it, and the wisdom and luck with which you applied any upgrades.

Cheers,

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