Re: debian unstable, stable enough?
On Saturday 09 September 2006 04:54, Marc Wilson wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 01:20:35PM +0200, Jordi Carrillo wrote:
> > Is Debian unstable, stable enough for a Desktop system?
>
> If you have to ask, the answer is definately "no".
Thanks for saying that again. I sometimes seriously wonder if the people who
claim to have no breakage in unstable use their systems for anything other
than a console log in. My personal experience has been that important things
like printing and usb-device access (in kde) *do* break regularly in
testing/unstable. If you really need to use your computer to work on, then
testing/unstable is IMHO a very bad idea.
The way I cover my butt to keep my system usable it that I:
1) have /home installed on a seperate partation than the system, data are
safe.
2) I use partimage to make an image of my working system to a second HD
regularly, every couple of months. I can restore this image from a LiveCD in
less than 15 minutes if I don't have the time or motivation to figure out
what went wrong with a dist-upgrade, or to search for the workaround. There
is no need to install from scratch (ugh)!
3) I use pinning to keep the system primarily at testing and only run stuff
from unstable or even experimental if it doesn't work in testing - but I
usually limit this to the gui packages (such as libgl1-mesa-dri to get
google-earth working, for k3b which was once stuck in unstable for a long
time).
Chris
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C. Hurschler
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