Re: lenny comfortable yet?
On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 22:19 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
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>
> My daily must-haves really are mild: base system, a brower (lynx or
> links2), an editor, mutt, exim, fetchmail, and I like mc, and aptitude
> (or apt-get or even dselect or plain dpkg in a pinch), along with
> ppp/chat. It wouldn't bother me if anything else stopped working for a
> while, but if I loose the ability to dial out, loose email, then I'm in
> difficulty.
>
> I know that, just like mutual funds, past performance does not guarantee
> future performance, but what has the experience been like for
> non-developers over the past couple of months? Do people think that
> Lenny is ready for a desktop run by a knowledgeable user?
I can't speak to whether Lenny amd64 will solve your flash-related
issues, but Lenny itself is perfectly comfortable. If anything,
personally I've been getting a bit frustrated again with the pace of
change in Lenny. My purely unscientific,
based-on-nothing-more-that-feeling opinion is that Lenny so far is
lagging compared to the pace of change in Etch when Etch was the current
testing. I've been debating switching to Sid, but I hesitate to take
that road since it's difficult (if not impossible; at least,
unsupported) to backtrack. Or maybe switching to Ubuntu or trying
another distro or FreeBSD.
There was a burst of activity over the past few weeks in Lenny upgrades,
none of which caused me any problems whatsoever. But it still seems
behind where I thought it would be by now. OTOH, if you're worried
about instability in Lenny, so far x86 has been rock-solid.
--
Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA
"No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions
of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to
dream." --S. Jackson
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