Re: I want to install lenny from scratch

[arijit <arijit.2612@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 12:18 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> Be vary careful.  Search the recent archives for content (not thread
> title) mentioning "lenny" or "testing".  Read the debian-reference to
> see the difference between sid (unstable), testing (now lenny), and
> stable (now etch).  Since you're new to debian, be especially careful.
> In testing, things break and then it takes a few days (10 or so?) for
> any fix added to sid to percolate down to lenny.  If that breakage
> happened to be in a program you relied upon, you would have that
> breakage for at least that long.  
>
> Since etch is recently stable, what is it you're needing that etch
> doesn't have?
>
> Doug.
ok, i'll do that before update.
I saw in debian-forum, that 'tetsing' is not bad as 'unstable' and 'lenny' is usable for regular users now. I can understand that something will break sometimes. since I am using linux at my home pc, i am okay with that. 
By the way, since I am new to debian, I always plays with it and sometimes it breaks even in etch (i am a newbie). so I'll be prepared for that.
anyway thanks for your advice.
I'll do the transition after evaluting my all options.

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Arijit Sarkar
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