Re: Woody vs. Sarge vs. You've heard this before ;-)
"David Z Maze" <dmaze@debian.org> wrote:
> "Jacob Anawalt" <jacob@cachevalley.com> writes:
>
> >> I was under the impression that the progression from "most reliable"
> >> to "most chaotic" was Stable -> Testing -> Unstable. Is that not so?
> >
> > So was I. It is not so (or so I've been told and my experiance backs
> > this up.) Unstable has been fine for my desktop for over a month
> > now.
>
> (Note that it has been known to break, and quite dramatically. Just
> because it's been good recently doesn't mean that there isn't going to
> be a random catastrophic failure in the future. :-)
Point taken, and as has been suggested, it may be a good idea to do a
'dry-run' of apt-get to see if it's going to remove stuff, if it does find
out why before installing.
For me, depending on the seriousness of catastrophic, I have chosen
to live with unstable for my desktop with the chance of a serious problem
than to live with testing for my desktop where (last month) the fonts
are difficult to read, I don't have a control panel to manage my desktop
environment, I get an error message about missing components each time
I log into my desktop window manager session and terminal based apps
don't launch from the normal menu (gnome2).
So, IMO (since this was a call for opinions) Woody vs. Sarge, Woody wins
at the moment. Woody vs Sid, well Sid may have a box of fireworks but
for now he suits me.
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