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Re: potato or woody or testing or arrgghghg



On Tue, 14 May 2002 13:37, Joe Biron wrote:
> Now, I'm not just a Debian newbie, I'm sort of a Linux intermediabie,
> and as I edited sources.list, I had no clue as to what I was doing, but
> nevertheless, I seem to have the latest versions of Debian (3.0?) and
> GNOME, after hours of playing with apt-get.  So I'm happy for now, but I
> need some background.

potato is stable
woody is testing
sid is unstable

Since woody is due to be released any day now, woody is almost as stable as 
potato.  Therefore you're almost certainly better running woody than potato.

Once woody is released next week, there will be a new testing distribution 
(sarge IIRC?).  If you prefer stability, leave your sources.list on woody.  
If you prefer relativly recent software then leave your sources.list on 
testing.  It won't make any difference for the next couple weeks but they 
will slowly diverge (e.g. KDE3 and XFree86 4.2 will go into testing but not 
into woody).

Corrin


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