On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 12:34:33AM -0800, George Bonser was heard to state: > > Is Debian 2.2 (Potato) stable enough to use it? > > I have been using it for almost a year. The thing is that a package might > cause problems from one day to the next. For what I have, everything is > working fine except the latest kbd package. Wait a day or so and that > should be fixed but something else might break in the meantime.
I think one issue is that, if you need to do a long, manual download, it might be worth waiting. I have potato running on my machine at work, and do an apt-get ugrade about once a week, and it's always a large download. I think, if you are planning on doing it by modem, you're going to have to do it all over again in a few months when it eventually goes stable. It's a long (though not terribly painful) process to do more than once. I have a slink system, which various potato modules (like gnome, glibc, and a few other bits and pieces not available in slink), and appart from a few minor glitches (eg., every xterm, gnome-term, Eterm, etc. I open up from gnome/sawmill has it's current working directory as ~/.gnome-desktop), it works fine. If you only want a few key packages updated, and you're willing to risk a few minor problems, just update the stuff you need and see how you go. Just my $0.02 cheers, damon -- Damon Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) / It's not a sense of humor. * Criminologist / It's a sense of irony * Webmeister / disguised as one. * Linux Geek / - Bruce Sterling