Re: How stable is SID?
On (01/03/05 10:30), Rick Friedman 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.
Hi Rick
I went from woody to sid over a year ago and use my machine daily for
work and play. Apart from some minor glitches with individual packages
caused by user ignorance (me), it has held up at least as well as MacOS
and OSX which I ran previously. We also have windows clients here that
suffer much more downtime than my sid laptop.
I agree with Lee that apt-listbugs is essential to avoid installing
broken packages. Other than that, running a dynamic system which evolves,
provides an excellent way of learning linux and Debian.
That said, I believe that sarge requires similar care through upgrades
with the additional disadvantage of fixes generally taking longer to
appear.
Regards
Clive
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