On Monday 20 September 2004 19:02, robin wrote: > >"Sid" is the testing kernel and is more advanced than > >"Sarge" and will cause you problems; stay away from > >that one. > > I would disagree. For a production machine definitely but maybe not a > desktop machine. I have run unstable without any problems for 18 months. > Maybe I've been lucky but debian in all its forms is one of the most > stable linux distribution I have run.
I've been using unstable on my dektop for five years now, and I have to disagree. It's really a matter of what you're willing to put up with. Woody, when it was released, was a little of a heartbreak as far as desktop software goes; much of it was quite outdated when woody was released. Sarge is not, and most of the desktop software is very mature. With sid, I just have gotten tired of things breaking. It's never anything crippling, but it gets fatiguing after a while. Mostly these things show up when others come over and use my computer, and find that something's broken I almost never use. It almost always something i can fix in 10 minutes, but I don't want to deal with that anymore at all. I'll definitely be moving to sarge from sid when it goes stable. -- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ ( t | i | m | @ | i | t | . | k | p | t | . | c | c ) \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ GPG key fingerprint = 1DEE CD9B 4808 F608 FBBF DC21 2807 D7D3 09CA 85BF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]