Mario Vukelic, Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 01:20:42AM +0200: > I'v run stable, testing and unstable. In you case, I would start with > stable. Most software in Linux is so mature these days that it doesn't > really matter if it's all that recent for the most part. Desktop > environments (Gnome, KDE) are an exception, but you can get good > (unofficial) backports to stable at http://www.apt-get.org > > You should also consider Libranet, it's a commercial distro based on > Debian, with a friendlier installer and more recent packages than > stable. > > Avoid testing!! Testing is for testing /the distribution/ and is quite > f****d most of the time, as packages trickle in from unstable in a quite > random manner. E.g., Gnome in testing is severely broekn, since some > packages of 2.2 are in testing, but other important packages are helb ub > by bugs. > > Unstable is ok, it's not so much the packages that are unstable, but the > package list changes frequently. It has mostly very recent packages that > are considered stable by upstream. However, be prepared that it does > impose quite much qork on the admin: config files have to be updated > frequently, since every time new package version come in. Also, you > should have a working bootdisk and be able to fix a system you can't > boot or log into by normal means. It happens very seldom, but it may. > You can avoid that by reading the debian-devel mailing list /before/ you > do an "apt-get update; update upgrade". Problems are reported there very > quickly. > Another option if you are running a largish site: run stable and compile any packages that you need a more recent version of. apt-get build-dep foo && apt-get source foo --compile will work for most packages. If it doesn't you can make any changes needed and use dpkg-buildpackage or debian/rules (the package makefile). [ assumes your sources.list has deb-src entries for unstable/testing ] After a while you'll have enough packages that building a local archive will make your life easier (see apt-ftparchive or dpkg-scanpackages ). Note: this really doesn't apply to the original question, I just wanted to point out that there is another options beside doing the unstable tango. g
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