Re: How stable is SID?
On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 10:30:49 -0500, Rick Friedman
<richard.c.friedman@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Currently, I am running Sarge on my home machine. I am thinking of doing
> a dist-upgrade to SID. I am ready to deal with any problems that may
> crop up. However, I DO have other people in the house who use the
> machine as well. I am wondering if SID is, at least, reasonably stable?
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> Any thoughts and suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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> Thanks,
> Rick
Depends on
1) how much time the administrator is willing to spend?
I spend around 4-5 hours a week for maintenance - looking at log
files, login details, new packages etc.,
2) how frequently is it upgraded?
I upgrade on a package basis not a date basis. If I want a new version
of a package, I will upgrade it. Otherwise I will just run the old
versions.
3) How seriously output of apt-listbugs & apt-listchanges is taken into account?
I take this very seriously. I read all bugs in all the packages that
are being upgraded. Then I hit the 'Y button'.
4) What is the criterion for stability?
My measure of stability is uptime.
that being said, I would say Sid is pretty stable as such. On my
laptop, my record uptime was about 2 months.
Upgrade only when you want to. When you are upgrading make sure you
understand what packages are upgraded and for what reason. Make
backups, just in case...
hth
raju
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Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
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