Re: debian unstable, stable enough?
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PD Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler wrote:
> On Saturday 09 September 2006 14:23, John Hasler wrote:
>> Chris writes:
>>> 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.
>> I run Unstable on my workstation and have not had breakage for years.
>> However, I do not blindly upgrade every day. I follow debian-devel,
>> selectively upgrade individual packages, and occasionally do a general
>> upgrade when everything seems ok.
>>
>> I also use neither Gnome nor KDE.
>> --
>> John Hasler
>
> Well, ok. Do you print, do you burn CDs, do you transfer photos from your
> camera? If you do, and on top of that in KDE (gasp!), you will have had
> breakage in the last six months on several occasions.
Windows users get bots, worms and viruses and regularly have to
reinstall, Debian Unstable (desktop) users get occasional *partial*
breakage that is (usually) quickly resolved. And never have to
descend into RPM Hell.
On the whole, I'll stick with Sid.
BTW, since I started with Debian back in the KDE 2.2.1 days, KDE has
always been a bit behind in Debian. IIMU that it is because of
packaging complexity.
> I think what you are saying is that if your are very carefull (read lots of
> lists), and if you don't use a desktop manager, *then* you won't have
> breakage for years. Ok. I can accept that.
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Is "common sense" really valid?
For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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