Re: Stable vs. Testing Vs. Unstable
On April 17, 2004 10:29 pm, Loren M. Lang wrote:
> I'm curious about how many people are actually using Debian Unstable or
> Testing to Stable for normal desktop use or even a production server.
> I've being using Gentoo lately, and I love how nice the newer software
> is like KDE 3.2.1 or Gnome 2.4 and I don't want to go back to Gnome 1.x
> just because I want a "stable" debian system, where gentoo seems to run
> fine with the latest.
Well I'm surprised at the number of responses that are negative towards
unstable. Maybe I've just been lucky but I can't say I've had any mayor
problems with unstable in about 3 years of using it.
Well actually I still have testing set as the default release (using apt
pinning) but I've installed so many packages from unstable that most of my
system is from unstable now.
Aside from problems with packages that I really didn't have the expertise
to use to start with (udev springs to mind) I really haven't had any mayor
problems. I've even used packages from experimental (KDE, XFree 4.3) and
aside from the occasional dependency conflict that gets solved at the next
update all has been fine. Never had a problem with stability or hosing my
system in 3 years.
~leo
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