Re: My first question on Debian
Hi.
I not an expert but here is what I know:
Debian has allways 3 flavors: stable, testing and unstable.
Stable made of very stable soft, so many programs may not be in their last
versions.
Stable is codenamed "woody".
Testing is a woody with some more up to date packages.
Testing is codenamed "sarge".
Unstable made of the very last versions of packages available, because of that
it may have some problems, but nothing an old debian user couldn't fix.
Unstable will always be named "sid". (The bad boy in "Toy Story")
Forget about hurd and potato.
The Hurd is the drog of gnu people (The Hurd is a new and "perfect" kernel
they are developing for some time now).
Potato is the previous version of debian.
If I were you I'll install stable (woody) and after some time learning the
"secrets" of debian you should be able of upgrade to a mix of testing and
unstable that satisfy your needs. (knoppix is such a mix)
But be aware: Installing and configuring Debian is more complex than
installing knoppix, because it give you so many options and posiblilities.
**Note that having stable doesn't mean not having the last soft. There is a
wonderfull place http://www.apt-get.org in wich you will find the very last
candy soft like video players, decoders, kde3.1, gnome2, and all this ready
to install in a debian woody system.
Best regards.
Alfredo
>
> I know this may sound silly to your Debianers, but I really don't know
> which one to download -- there're several dirs under
> debian-unofficial:
> hurd/ potato/ sarge/ sid/ woody/
> each with some ISOs under it.
>
> So, which is the most *bleeding-edge* one?
>
>
> -Isaac
>
>
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