Re: Experimenting with Debian

["Michael M." <nixlists@writemoore.net>]

Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 April 2006 11:31, Toby Satchell wrote:
>   
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am setting up a dual boot with debian and want to experiment with it
> > as a desktop. I am wondering which would be the best version to go for,
> > Stable, Testing , Unstable. I run Stable at the moment with for a
> > server, but wondering if testing would be a better option for a desktop
> > as I would also like to implement steam under wine(and the other one I
> > can't remember at the moment)
> >
> > Can somebody with some experience please offer some advice.
> >     
>
> This used to be a frequent question on this list and I had the same questions
> when I started using Debian. So I wrote an FAQ on this which can be found at
>
> http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/debian_choosing_distribution.html
>
> After reading this, if you have more questions, please let me know. Then I 
> will
> change the FAQ accordingly. Input from new users is very important for such
> FAQs.
>
> hth
> raju
>
>   

Excellent FAQ I think.  You might want to update #17:

"Currently Debian does not offer any security updates to testing or 
unstable. So make sure that you remove the lines relating to security 
updates of stable in /etc/apt/sources.list ."

Debian does have security updates for testing now.

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