On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 02:08:52PM -0600, Dave Babb wrote: > OK......OK..... > > I get it...... > > If I'm understanding what all of the responses have said <And THANK YOU by > the > way> > > > Stability, robustness, testing, testing, more testing, cautious deployment of > new stuff, and keep all of the various architectures in sync. > > The responses indicate that Debian is a distro to take into any server room, > deploy it, and not loose sleep about something blowing up when you leave. > > I'm not opposed to that, as long as she can get newer packages if possible. > And > the threads I've just read have told me that my daughter can get all the new > stuff if she really wants it. > > That's really all I needed to hear! > > You see... My current distro on my box is Arch Linux, based upon Crux, is > exactly the opposite. Bleeding edge, short testing cycle, deploy and respond > to > things that go boom-boom. And being a engineer, I enjoy a little techie pull > your hair out stuff now and then. The boom-boom stuff has helped me sharpen > my > skills. >
If you like that sort of thing this is what you want to do: 1. Go with Sid (unstable). 2. If any packages you use have newer versions in experimental, give them a shot. 3. Check out the various Alioth projects for the ultra-bleeding edge stuff. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr
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