On Thu, 05 Mar 2015, Ken Heard wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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. > > 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? > > 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. B -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150304230244.15f52...@debian7.boseck208.net