Re: Debian Newbie
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On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 08:23:05AM +0100, Tom Badran wrote:
> Hi everybody. Im a mandrake convert whos fallen in love with debian. Best
> installer ive used yet :)
I thought so, too, but apparently many people have problems with it.
(I've noticed this is the same group of people who, when asked about the
installation manual respond with, "What installation manual?" and don't
bother to read any prompts or help text anywhere during the
installation).
> I just wanted to know what the various 'debians' (SID, woody, potatoe)
> people refer to.
sid is the unstable distribution, still in development. This is for the
developers and the bleeding edge lunatic fringe of which I happen to be
a member of. While still more stable than Windows (and about half the
RPM based distros for), I can't recommend it to new users. When it
breaks, it's just about gauranteed to be some form of mystery breakage.
woody is the testing distribution right now, and will become stable
sometime around May 1, 2002 8:o). If you're still using potato, and
you're on the i386 architecture, go ahead and upgrade to woody now and
avoid the rush later.
potato is the stable (released) distribution, and will join it's buddies
bo, buzz, ham, rex and slink in the debian-archive when woody goes
stable.
Yes, the releases are named after characters from Pixar's 1995 movie
"Toy Story."
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Baloo
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