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Re: Upgrading to etch



On Friday 10 June 2005 09:51 am, nullman wrote:
> i AM sure, that ..
>
> 1. etch is the currently testing-Branch
> 2. Testing was forked when sarge became stable (not so long ago ;-)
>
> -> so Etch = Sarge + what changed in testing since sarge became stable
>
> When testing (etch) becomes more busy (new packages -
> gnome-transition, ...) it MAY be unstable for a short while .. but
> that was the case in sarge, too before it freezed.
>
> 2005/6/10, Nico De Ranter <nico@sonycom.com>:
> > On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 15:33, nullman wrote:
> > > isnt etch currently only a very young fork of sarge ?
> > > -> so IT WILL be as stable as sarge the last months !
> >
> > I'm not sure. Etch is likely to get the latest version of KDE, Gnome,
> > Perl, python... soon which will make it very unstable for a while.

Then there is the changeover from XFree86 to X.org, which may break *lots* of 
stuff. :)

Any word on the timetable for this switch?

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