On 24-Apr-00, 11:23 (CDT), "Juergen A. Erhard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Craig> upgrading to whatever the latest stable releases is > Craig> requires just as much caution/paranoia as upgrading to > Craig> whatever is in the latest unstable. anyone who trusts the > Craig> latest debian stable release on their critical/production > Craig> servers without testing it on other machines first deserves > Craig> whatever they get. > > And damn all the maintainers who have only one machine to work on > (their personal system).
I think you missed the part where he said "critical/production servers". In that environment, there *are* test/devel machines available. (If there aren't, then the sysadmin isn't doing his/her job, or the sysadmin needs to find a new job at a company that actually knows what they're doing.) Steve