Re: debian unstable, stable enough?
On 2006-09-08 14:39:34 +0200, Albert Dengg wrote:
> one of the two machines running sarge at home does have some problems
> (keeps muting the soundcard for some unknown reason)...
> and last week a (security) update broke my system completly
> (seems that the compute for some reason resartet right in the middle of
> the libc6 upgrage...)
Perhaps a hardware problem, that could also happen with Debian stable?
> > > Yes, if you take regular
> > > backups of your important data.
> >
> > Really? Nothing that bad has ever happened to me.
> you have been luky...
> even though i hardly have data loses
> (sometimes program bugs, sometimes files deleted by accident, once a kernel
> bug, and two or three times hw failure....
>
> so backups are _always_ a good idea....
Yes, the only time I had data loss was after harddisk failures, not
because of problems with the software. Fortunately, most of the time,
backups are readable.
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