Hola Rodolfo, salutacions des de Barcelona! > After long doubts and four years using Linux, I'm finally decided to > use Debian as my distro and not change anymore.
Good decision! :) > > I'm thinking of installing potato, since am really fed up of half-boiled > distros (RH7, for instance), but I´d like to have some packages in > more bleeding-edge versions. Any problem about that? Should I > install woody instead if I intend to use non-stable packages? I've read many times that using woody is like using RH (not 7, it's curious but this list was full of ex RedHat sysadmins. With RH 7 it seems that this number is even increasing!) > > -After reading Debian docs, I don't get how updating works. Should > I expect stable packages of gnome 1.2, XFree 4, etc.for potato or > they're reserved for when woody becomes stable? In different > words: through updating, does potato become woody, or potato > doesn't change and it's woody what will change until stability? > > -How stable is unstable? I'm not running a server, should I go to > woody directly? You can try potato with the bleeding edge packages you need from woody. If you used in detail those distros (going to /etc with a text editor) Debian won't be painful. You can check the Xfree 4 issues on this list, in the previous weeks. There have been some. Que vagi bé, Ignasi __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
