Re: Switching from Arch to Debian Sid.

[Nuno Magalhães <nunomagalhaes@eu.ipp.pt>]

>> 1. How stable is AMD64 Sid in general?  I'd like to hear users'
>> opinions on this.

Sid = unstable. I've been using it for over a year now (as a desktop
system), no big deals.

>> 2. Are Debian packages compiled with optimisations (eg -03)?  How much
>> of a difference would this make to performance if they aren't?

Beats me... you can always pull the sources for specific packages if
you want...

>> 4. How often will I have to safe-upgrade with Sid and how often do
>> dependencies break?

I use apt-get dist-upgrade every once in a while, it handles all the
mess, usually without a fuss.


And there's a debian-amd64 mailling list as well. ;-)

HTH
Nuno Magalhães

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