Re: Jessie sufficiently stable for general use?
On Thu, 05 Mar 2015, Ken Heard wrote:
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> In the next month or so I will have to do a clean OS installation in
> two desktops. Jessie is now frozen (Debian's contribution to retarding
> global warming?); and there are apparently fewer RC bugs at this point
> after the freeze than there were at the same point in time after the
> freezing of previous releases.
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> I see that RC1 of Jessie is now available. I would consequently
> appreciate opinions as to whether Jessie is now or will be by mid
> April sufficiently stable for such installations, or should I install
> Wheezy instead and upgrade to Jessie when it is officially declared
> stable?
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> I would much prefer the one step approach -- install Jessie within two
> months and live with non RC bugs for a while -- to the two step
> approach -- Wheezy now and upgrade to Jessie six months later more or
> less. Perhaps when I get around to those installations there may be a
> further RC release of Jessie?
If its any assurance, the Wheezy install on this system began its life
as an RC1 dual boot with the Primary OS at the time -- Fedora 12. I
never had any issues with the RC1 or the later releases including
Stable. Debian is VERY conservative with their release designations.
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