On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 09:44:46AM -0700, jennyw wrote:
> I started using Debian because folks suggested it was easy to maintain
> (e.g. apt-get). I really like apt -- it certainly makes installing and
> downloading things a lot easier than other distributions. However ...
> I'm not (yet) a heavy Linux user, and I find that a lot of times I
> want software that's more recent than the stuff in the packages. This
> usually means that I end up downloading stuff and compiling new software.
>
> Also, I'm currently using potato because it's labeled as stable. Would
> I be making a bad mistake by moving to Woody to get some of the more
> recent stuff? What about mixing stable and testing/unstable
> distributions? Is this generally unwise?
If you're downloading and compiling stuff your self, I'd say go for
testing/unstable. Unless ofcourse your in a production environment.
In general unstable is rather stable.
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