Hallo Markus, Posted and mailed.
Markus Lechner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Maybe this question is really stupid, but anyway: > > bo, hamm, stable, unstable, etc. What's this? > Hamm means unstable or untested - concerning to the kernel or only to > the software packages? Well, only to the software packages. The Kernel is stable or unstable depending on which one you installed (2.0.X = stable, 2.1.Y = unstable). > I feel a bit outdated when running bo and it looks like the amount of > problems > is mostly the same - no matter whether running the stable or the > unstable distribution. nitpic (for example) won't run on my system (but > it should be > stable, or not?). You don´t have to. I always run my production system as bo (but ok, I have got an unstable system, too. That´s because I want to take part in the development.) The advantages/disadvantages of a hamm system are: 1) glibc6 2) New source format for packages 3) A lot of more packages. 4) Sometimes new uploads of packages can be broken. Unless you plan to develop libc6 or want to have some of the new packages, there´s no need to upgrade. No. 4, I think is a good reason not to upgrade until hamm freezes for release. A friend of mine in december wasn´t able to read mail two days, because dselect updated his mail reader and it was broken... > How can kde-beta2.2 (i got the Lehmanns CD) reside in > stable? I do not understand what is actually stable and what's not - and > how this relates to the kernel-version. Well, JFL`s CD isn`t an Official Debian GNU/Linux Distribution. They provide KDE as an add on, which is possible as there`s no license prohibiting this. This is encouraged by the debian project. (In France there`s a commercial distribution based on debian.) Jens --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for pgp-key (during normal european business time hours) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .