current state of testing?

[Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il>]

I need to install a new system for my supervisor in uni (needs to run
apache and sshd at the moment) over the current red-hat 6.2
installation (to much of a pain to install those over that system ;-)

Anyway, considering the root password was lost for 5 years and that it
is still running red-hat 6 I am a bit reluctant to install unstable on
it, and woody seems a bit too old at the moment.

What is the current state of testing? how close is it to being stable
(apart from the installer), how much is it changing now, and what are
the states of gnome and apache2 there?

(I am running unstable at the moment on two machines, but I don't know
how long I will be around to make sure the new one is updated).

Thanks