Mark said: > of debian, but this is going to be my first upgrade and don't know how > much I should blindly trust these things. Should I upgrade now or wait > for the transition to gcc3.2 to end?
sounds like your new to debian.. if this is a new installation I would reccomend upgrading now. The more experience you have dealing with a broken system the better. And if you break your current system in it's new state you risk losing less. Chances are good that you'll break your system to _some_ extent sooner or later, that's just the way it is when running the unstable(or even testing) stuff. I personally have never run unstable, when I ran testing(before testing became woody) I upgraded about once every 2 months on average. I run a self built version of afterstep, and do not use GNOME or KDE(though I do rely upon a lot of the gnome libs for some apps that I use). When I upgraded I would exit out of X and do the upgrade there, just for saftey, and don't remember ever having any issues, well none that I could not solve fairly easily(or workaround). at the moment there's nothing in unstable, and only 2 packages in testing that I need which don't warrant an upgrade(just a recompile of those packages on woody). I probably will never understand the need that some people have to use the absolute bleeding edge. nate (loyal debian user since '98) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
