Actually, I have been using Debian (off and on), since the 1990's. My
first real GNU/Linux distribution was Debian 2.0 - "Hamm"!
"I wish I could quit you."
- from the movie, Brokeback Mountain
I have dabbled a little with testing before, but mostly stayed with stable,
when I was using Debian. Always hated to have to choose between an up to
date system or security and stability. There always seemed to be too big a
gap in-between the two choices.
BTW, thanks for all the friendly, knowledgeable advice and input. That's
one of Debian's best features. It's a refreshing change from some other
F/LOSS communities, which shall not be named. Some are friendly, some are
smart, but that rarely goes together. (And some are neither!)
On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 2:21 PM, Brian <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon 08 Jun 2015 at 19:35:53 +0200, Erwan David wrote:
>
> > Le 08/06/2015 19:29, Nicolas George a écrit :
> > >
> > > If you have decided you are up to the task of using testing, then do
> it.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> >
> > Note also that using testing give you the advantage of not having to
> > upgrade all software at the same time, but gradually. You get infos in
> > the News and Changelog of packages, generally the same information that
> > will be consolidated in the release notes of next version. So it's up to
> > everyone to choose, even to have different setting for different
> > machines depending of their use (I have production servers in stable,
> > some test machin in testing, and even my laptop in testing).
>
> There is a good deal of common-sense advice here, The idea of meeting
> and overcoming a problem as it happens (rather than at release time) is
> an interesting one. If you have confidence in what you are doing and
> have the time, go with it.
>
> If you are new to Debian - use stable. You will not go far wrong.
>
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