Re: Debian updates worth to follow as a normal user
Joe <joe@jretrading.com>:
> Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> > s. keeling wrote:
> >> T o n g <mlist4suntong@yahoo.com>:
> >>
> >>> Where is the recommended place to read about Debian updates
> >>> that would affect end users?
> >>
> >> I think it's about this time that some jerk pipes up and says
> >> production machines serving users should be running stable, the
> >> raison d'etre of debian. Sorry.
> >
> > Here you go! Production machines serving users should be running stable!
>
> Indeed so, but for that to happen, a lot of people must do
> production-type work on sid and testing. How else do the bugs get
> reported?
Users don't know how to report bugs. Hell, I often fsck it up, and
I've been running Linux since '93.
> What would probably help in that process would be some kind of
> organised rollback of the last batch of updates, without having to
> do a full backup-restore of the whole OS. Restore Points, anyone?
Buy a Mac.
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