Re: Recommendations regarding using Debian Testing
On 01/07/2016 02:07 PM, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 1:04 PM, Francesco Ariis <fa-ml@ariis.it> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 11:02:20PM +0530, Himanshu Shekhar wrote:
>>> I want to use Debian Testing (not Backports, as I had a bad experience), to
>>> try the latest version of software available.
>>> However, I am a bit confused regarding whether testing would provide the
>>> same level of stability as Stable does!
>>> Any recommendations.
I have gone with debian testing for several months. Now I use debian stable, why? It's not because stability.
Because I use vmware in my desktop. There are many virtual machines I use.
vmware can't go with kernel change like vmdk for virtualbox. There are no many resources of vmware to patch the vmnet module if your kernel is much newer than the average. So I can't go with newer kernel in testing repository.
I was angry about vmware and did not want to use virtualbox(due to some reasons), but I have no method. Then I downgrade from testing to stable by reinstall stable version.
This is my experience, but I think it's suitable to use debian testing as your notebook os. And it's not debian's fault, vmware is.
- mudongliang
>> Hello Himanshu,
>> there is a great faq at
>>
>> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ch-choosing
>>
>> I myself use stable, even thought when I used unstable (not even testing)
>> on armhf, I had almost zero problems.
>>
> This just made my day. I wrote those faqs (at least the initial
> version) a long time ago. I used to maintain it on my personal webpage
> which is now defunct. I am happy that it is being cited to this day.
>
> raju
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