On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 08:10:03PM +0100, Jeff Elkins wrote: > Thank you, Rick and Vineet. > > As a newbie, I appreciate your responses. > > I'm looking forwarding to exploring Debian. Be careful with sid; it's where all the development of Debian takes place, and it's undergoing quite a transition at the moment. GCC 3.2 is now the default compiler, which has caused every single C++ program and library to be gradually rebuilt and uploaded. Since sid is continuously available, even during times like this, it might be impossible to install a particular package at any point in time. This doesn't happen often, but it does happen; particularly with KDE3, which is entering the archive at the moment. Make sure you can afford to lose the use of your sid partition for a little while if something breaks, and you'll be just fine :-) That said, I've been using sid for a couple of years now, and I've never lost data, or even had an unbootable/unloginable/unusable system. Go subscribe to debian-devel-announce (on http://lists.debian.org/) so you hear about the major transitions before they happen, keep an eye on this list, and you'll be just fine. -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> http://ertius.org/
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