Am 2007-03-27 10:07:39, schrieb Dan H.: > But at the same time Debian offers the "testing" and "unstable" distros, > both of which are perfectly fine for the desktop user. There's no need > to cling to stable unless you're running a server that must be 100% > reliable.
Right!
> And if you must have 100% reliability, and you must use testing for
> whatever reason, you can check the BTS to see which packages are holding
> up the transition to stable. Chances are pretty good that you don't even
> want any of those on your system, so you can go ahead and use testing
> without a single RC bug.
Not realy right.
I was runing three very HUGE PostgreSQL 7.4 databases of each 560 GByte
running on Sarge for years... Now I was hit by a grave performance
problem and considered to upgrade to Etch. This was for some month!
I have checked the outstanding RC bugs from Testing/Etch and considered,
that there are not RC bugs/packages for my PostgreSQL servers and
installed. Including PostgreSQL 8.1.
Since I need PostgreSQL 8.2 (because table partitioning) which is NOT
EVEN in Unstable/Sid I had to pack it my own! -- With success and
without problems! -- Now it runs since some weeks without any errors.
I hope, it will enter Unstable/Sid very fast, since it is realy annoying
to package new versions nearly each week for me alone!
In summary, since Etch will be released wehen it is ready, - sorry, soon,
I can consider Etch as STABLE FOR ME.
> I don't know what all these complaints are about. I had been running
> stable on my desktop up to January, but then I got too impatient about
> etch and just went ahead and installed it. It's been running hitch-free
> since (except for some rare, inexplicable 100%-crashes which seem to
> have gone away as I keep upgrading kernels).
Since I need an 100% availlable Office-Workststion I run Stable/Sarge.
For me, there is not a singel need to run the last release of a software,
with some realy MINOR exceptions. (PostgreSQL-client and some related
libs)
My dedicated Devel-Station (Dual-Opteron) is running all 4 releases and
is another thing.
Same for my dedicated Multimedia-Station which run definitivly the latest
Versions and many in Debian non-availlable software... where I have my
own Debian-Packages (not realy for Debian, -- SINCE THEY WORK FOR ME!)
Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
Michelle Konzack
Systemadministrator
Tamay Dogan Network
Debian GNU/Linux Consultant
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