Re: Jessie sufficiently stable for general use?
On 2015-03-10, Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 03/10/2015 04:53 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
>> On Tuesday 10 March 2015 03:53:29 Sivaram Neelakantan wrote:
>>> all I want is the One True Directive(TM)
>>
>> Ubuntu?? ;-)
>>
>> Sorry, Sivaram. But this is Debian. People don't usually use Debian
>> if they want the One True Directive! We all have different opinions.
>> A lot depends on which version you are using, and how very much it
>> would matter if something went wrong.
>>
>> For Jessie, at present, I just use:
>>
>> # aptitude update # aptitude safe-upgrade # aptitude full-upgrade
>>
>> And that is because Jessie is still Testing and I don't do it often
>> enough, so there are a lot of updates when I do do it.
>>
>> For fewer updates, so always for Wheezy, I just do:
>>
>> # aptitude update # aptitude full-upgrade
>>
>> *So* *far* my systems have not blown up in my face.
>>
>> Only you can know what you will feel comfortable with. I believe in
>> KISS. Some people are only happy with complication. I am only
>> mildly paranoid. Some people are paralytic with paranoia. I'm
>> afraid you have to choose your own degree of paranoia and find out
>> what you are comfortable with.
>>
>> But if you want to be told what to do, and told the same thing by
>> everybody, don't use Debian!!
>
> That is the wisest thing I've ever read on the Internet! :) Ric
Ha! I agree. And a variation would be: "But if you want to be told what
to do, and told the same thing by everybody, don't use ask questions on
this list"!
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Liam
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