Re: Debian Sarge to Etch
On Wednesday 27 July 2005 21:53, Fred OGrady <fred.ogrady@gmail.com>
(<[🔎] 9b6208f0050727205326a0c85c@mail.gmail.com>) wrote:
> I have a small question, (as a newbe).
> Just how "Unstable" is Unstable?
I'm not Paul, but here's my opinion; I've been running Sid exclusively for
nearly two years. Usually, I've found it to be more than "sufficiently"
stable and I intend to continue using it.
Recently, the transition from XFree86 to X.org caused me some minor problems
for several days -- consoles unreadable and a problem with the 'xv'
extension resulting in blue rectangles instead of video. These problems
resolved themselves in the last week or so.
The current transition involving the C++ ABI is somewhat more difficult. On
my system, KMail crashes at startup with the kdelibs upgrade and I've
downgraded. A fix (if that's what it is) is delayed as many (or all) Qt
applications are reported to be unbuildable because of the transition.
If you're new to Linux or just Debian, I recommend waiting for "a while"
before switching from Sarge to Sid (if you intend to switch).
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