[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just my 2 cents but I am getting a little desperate at the number of
bog ups
in Unstable at the moment. I don't want to leave the platform but if
things
continue like this I will have to. Like many folks perhaps, I am
completely
baffled by Debian's reluctance to get together a desktop iternation
that is
more up to date than Stable. It doesn't have to be rock solid, but
there must
be a better way than this.
I don't think we should blame all Debian developers. The only real
problems I've had with sid were related to x-server; all other parts
of Debian are rock solid. Maybe the x-server Debian maintainers are
new/unexperienced in that task?
I have yet to experience these problems with X that some people seem to
be having. Just lucky timing? I've certainly done problem-free updates
at the same time others have reported problems. I don't know, but it
does seem to me that most of the time it turns out that someone who has
a problem has somewhere along the line done some customizing of the
server set-up. I tend to think it's not that the Debian maintainers are
inexperienced, but that they can't account for every possible tweak any
given user might have made to a complicated system like X when that
system itself is going through a major reorganization and restructuring.
And I don't mean to imply that "it's the user's fault." Many people
make little adjustments here and there to their set-ups -- that we can
do that is one of the benefits of running a Linux OS in the first
place. Most of the time, this isn't a problem. But when you're running
a system that is fairly cutting-edge and apt to go through some major
changes from time to time, it's worth remembering that the less
"standard" your installation, the more likely it is you'll have problems
when these changes hit.
At one extreme, you run Linux from Scratch and do all your own
recompiling and dependency-satisfying and configure your heart out
knowing that you have complete control over everything that happens on
your computer; at the other, you stick only to official Debian apt
sources, don't make any funny edits to configuration files, and use
official tools that tell you exactly how your system wants to be set-up
so that you can do a simple "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" without
worry.
Happiness lies somewhere in-between. :-)
--
Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA
"No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute
reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream." --S. Jackson
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