Brent Clark <brentgclarkl...@gmail.com> writes: > I think if you run Testing, its no different if you run / use FreeBSD > ports. You just need to know, and guess if its safe to do a dist-upgrade > or upgrade only certain packages, but 99% of the time, I just > dist-upgrade, and as said .. no problems here. Even Ubuntu, Ive never > had a problem.
Actually in my experience most packages even in debian unstable are generally less buggy, better integrated, and better maintained than the average package in FreeBSD ports (which always seemed a bit of a crapshoot to me). "testing" is quite stable; "unstable" has occasional glitches, but is generally of high quality, and far more more stable than the name suggests. I'd recommend "unstable" for anyone that is clueful about how a GNU/linux system is put together (though these skills are rarely needed, very occasionally they can save your butt), "testing" for the average home user, and I suppose "stable" for paranoid corporate server sysadmins. -Miles -- Barometer, n. An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org