Re: Helping the newbie
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On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 03:51:27AM -0400, Hershel Robinson wrote:
> Said Greg Folkert:
>
> > Stable is NOT "stability of the system"... STABLE means few if any
> > changes to the DISTRO.
>
> Said : Andreas Janssen:
>
> > ... Sarge or Sid are usable for
> > desktop systems (at least many people use it, I use Woody with KDE 3),
>
> May I ask another newbie question? Are both of these statements accurate?
More or less, yes. Though I would avoid sid or sarge until you've got
a good grasp on Debian.
> They are not precisely the impression I get from this page:
> http://www.debian.org/releases/
Right. That page is focused towards less experienced Debian users,
because sarge is basically week-old sid hand-me-downs, and every once
in a while a broken package ends up in sid. tetex-bin is broken badly
in sid right now, for example (as in, waiting for an upgrade because
it can't configure, and thus won't let me do anything but upgrade it
easily).
> I am a complete Linux newbie and I am hoping to install Debian on a second
> machine, just as soon as I can purchase said machine. :)
I would stick with stable until you get the hang of it. Learning a
new OS is hard enough without having things randomly break for no
obvious reason.
- --
.''`. Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca>
: :' : proud Debian admin and user
`. `'`
`- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system
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