On 2004-03-18, Michael Satterwhite penned: > > On Thursday 18 March 2004 14:28, Monique Y. Herman wrote: >> What sorts of testing would you want to do on your testing machine? >> The testing distro is a little odd in that it's really intended for >> developers, not users. It's "the stuff they're working on for the >> next release of stable," not necessarily "the stuff that's more >> stable than unstable but newer than stable." This is a subtle but >> important difference. For example, security updates will make it >> into testing *after* they make it into both unstable and stable. > > I do development on the machine running Sarge. The package list in the > stable list gets a bit dated for me. They, however, are perfect for > the machine that *HAS* to be up and stable. I don't want that machine > anywhere near the cutting edge.
*nod* If I were you, I believe I would choose unstable, not testing, on my development box. But that's just me. -- monique -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]