Re: Etch experiences
On Jun 22 2005, Hans du Plooy wrote:
> Thanks for the replies, Peter and Rogério.
You're welcome, Hans.
> It's a P-III 1ghz, 256MB ram, so I don't want to loaded with a too heavy
> distro...
Your notebook seems to be as powerful as my desktop and that's because I
upgraded its processor in the past weeks: it used to have a Duron 600MHz
and now I have upgraded to a Duron 1100MHz, with 256MB of PC133 RAM
(unfortunately running only at PC100 speed, as I have to underclock it to
run it stably).
I don't run any Desktop Environment. Just fluxbox (which I highly recommend
with the "Minimal" style, as it is a low resource style) and some dock
applications.
> I just don't know which will be the most stable, as I imagine etch would
> undergo a few big changes.
I think that sticking with etch is still the safer choice, as the "10 day
barrier" would prevent very buggy packages from entering testing. And
keeping track of sites like http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian is a good thing, in
my opinion.
Hope this helps, Rogério.
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