On 2008-10-06 18:40, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > Hi. Im running Lenny on two computers, and have been very happy with > it. Nothings ever really been broken, so i dont think that a "stable" > version is necessary for what i need. > > I dont really want to go "unstable"--the name alone scares me--but at > the same time i read the release notes for the new Ubuntu beta, and > its really nice. I *want* Gnome 2.24 (the auto XRandR thing is > especially nice, ive always wanted multi-head but am skeered to mess > with my xorg.conf). I _want_ the new version of Network Manager. > Etcetera. > > Is there any way to get this, but without the risk of the system > breaking every other day? I dont want my life to be about managing > the system, but im willing to have a little inconvenience in return > for more up to date features. Just wait a little while and lenny will become stable (noone knows when this will happen exactly (released when ready) but the RC count is going down). Then stick with testing. After the lifting of the freeze with the release of lenny, all the new software will start entering testing much more quickly than now. After all, noone can take the decision between 'bleeding edge, unstable and changing all the time' and 'tested and stable' for you, but debian at least offers several levels in between: stable, backports, testing, unstable, experimental... YMMV, good luck ;-) Johannes
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