Re: Running testing? -- read this.
On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 10:48:57AM -0400, Carl Fink wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 10:02:13AM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
>
> > So? I've been using testing for years, and have found it to be
> > remarkably stable - it's remarkable precisely because it IS 'testing'.
> > Sometimes (rarely) things break, but that's something I prefer to
> > live with so that I can have an up-to-date system. The current
> > 'stable' is relatively up to date, as it's fairly recent, but there
> > tends to be a long period between stable releases.
>
> And in fact, for (using a number I just pulled out of thin air) 90% of the
> time I've been using Debian, going back to Slink, Stable has been so
> obsolete as to be hard to use for anything but some servers.
Huh? The only time I ever used Testing was when I got a new box with
SATA drives and Sarge didn't handle it well. I've stuck with Etch
since. Actually, if Woody was still getting security updates, I'd have
stuck with that. OK, perhaps some web pages wouldn't now work with
Woody's Firefox.
Doug.
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