"Philip Ross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am looking to migrate a few Red Hat boxes to Debian in the next > month or two and am currently wondering whether to install woody or > sarge.
If you're new to Debian, I'd strongly suggest starting with the stable distribution (so, in this case, woody); if you decide it's too stale for you, you can augment it with backports or decide to upgrade to testing or unstable later. If you decide that testing is too broken for you right now, it's very hard to go back to stable. > I've seen posts that suggest sarge will become the stable > distribution soon > (http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2003/debian-devel-announce-20 > 0308/msg00010.html). Can anyone point me to an up to date > estimation of the release date? There's a current thread on debian-devel discussing this. I don't think I've seen an announcement yet naming a date for the sarge freeze, so "several months out at the least" would be my statement. > Given Red Hat updates will end at the end of the year, I want to get > up and running with Debian before that. If sarge doesn't become > stable until next year, would it be better to install woody now and > upgrade to sarge in a few months, or install sarge now? How long > will woody remain supported with security updates? I think it's better to install woody now; upgrading should be pretty straightforward, either before or after sarge releases. ("Install woody and upgrade to sarge" is probably also the easiest way to wind up with an installed sarge system, though there's a testing version of the new Debian installer out.) Again, I don't have an official statement on how long woody will be supported, but given the flak people have taken before for trying to desupport things, it'll hopefully be a while. :-) (I think potato was supported for six months or so beyond the woody release, can't find the information online right now.) -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
