Re: Debian crash randomly
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Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> On 28/04/2008, Rich Healey <healey.rich@gmail.com> wrote:
>> But how does the distribution advance if *NOONE* runs testing/unstable?
>
> Oh, it's great that people are running both of those, and I run them
> too, but we're essentially beta testers. I do my best to send timely
> bug reports when I can, or be as generally helpful as possible, with
> occasional ideas on what to do to the source when I know what to do.
> It's just not something that non-experts should o.
>
>> The stable box is with my mother,
> [snip]
>> The testing machine is my laptop for work,
> [snip]
>> Then i have 2 desktops which run sid, on different archtypes, and give
>> me basis for comparison,
>
> This sounds like a completely reasonable setup to me, and is very
> close to what I do too. My mom is also getting stable because she
> still has a hard time using a mouse or figuring out the window and
> desktop metaphor. Yesterday I taught her how to drag and drop files.
> :-)
>
> - Jordi G. H.
Jordi,
I'm glad someone out there agrees with me.
While i'd never run anything except stable on a production server, I
can't get my head around zealots with a "testing and sid are
evilbadscary" attitude.
Hell, if i'm really in the mood for it i do a dist-upgrade to
experimental just to see what breaks.
Actually, there's a lot of cool stuff in there come to think of it.
All of my machines except the stable one have some (many have lots) of
stuff from experimental installed, mainly because where i can i prefer
to have -dev packages than libraries that i've built manually, while i
keep an eye on the projects that I build from code repos, i tend to
forget to update my libraries.
Regards
Rich Healey
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