On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:34:00 +0200, Brent Clark wrote: > Daniel Dalton wrote: >> Hi, >> >> How stable is debian testing (squeeze)? Is it worth updating to? Or >> should I wait a little bit until more development has been done? I used >> to run debian when it was testing, so wonder if squeez is this stable? >> >> Daniel. >> >> > Hi > > Im of the opinion that more people should be running testing (and if you > know what you doing / more braver - use unstable). It works and it works > very well.
I run testing on my workstations, and I run stable on my server -- except at the moment I can't get NFS mounts to work with lenny/stable so I'm actually still running etch/oldstable on the server. When I upgrade, I always keep a spare bootable partition with the old Debian on it, just in case. Thus in the server, when I upgraded to lenny, I firat copied mu etch. If I hadn't dome that, my server would have been quite useless as server. And on the client machines that run squeeze, there'a a bootable partition containing lenny. A few years ago when sarge was testing (I think it was sarge) X went through several major changes in rapid order *and* udev was being introduced, I had to go back to woody, which I still had around. X was very much improved by the revolution, but it was tough while it was going on. So run testing, by all means, but keep a stable around just in case. -- hendrik > > Here where I work, and at home too, I run debian testing. In the Ten > years that I have been running Debian, I can only remember that on two > occasions that I have experienced problems (but im sure the problem was > more between the keyboard and chair ;) ). > > Another thing is if more people would submit bugs. Really help the > maintainers. Help the project and community. > > The only problem I do have is with package management. I find it a bit > cumbersome and too tiring to even bother (Think Debian could learn from > FreeBSD). > > Anyway. > > HTH and hope you will give Testing a try. > > Kind Regards > Brent Clark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org