Jacob, I don't mean to pry, but doesn't running code labled 'unstable' defeat the
purpose of running a stable operating system? Sure the kernel never crashes, only
your apps do, but it seems to me that the benefit to running CVS or unstable software
(new features) is not worth the instability, the KNOWN (and unknown) bugs, dependency
problems and conflicts (such as your description below).
;)
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 07:34:55PM -0700, Jacob Meuser wrote:
> Depends how you define stable. The biggest problem I've run
> across was a OpenSSH (I guess Debian still calls it ssh) binary
> built against a different OpenSSL (or as Debian calls it, ssl)
> library. Not too big of a deal, just rebuild OpenSSH locally.
> But that's when I found out that to build OpenSSH on Debian,
> you need gimp libraries, which was kind of lame.
> I'm using it on my laptop, which I haven't been using much
> lately, due to the cracks in the screen :(
> I was updating daily (usually about 5mb or so a day, I have
> a lot of packages ;) for about 6 weeks, and the ssh problem
> was the only one that caused me some downtime.
> I imagine there were and are things that don't work quite
> as well as they could, but I haven't used them at the time
> they were b0rked.
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 11:46:46AM -0700, Rob Hudson wrote:
> > How stable is sid? Didn't they have a freeze a while back?
> >
> > > On 20010514.1136, Jacob Meuser said ...
> > >
> > > Or sid, well I follow "unstable" to be exact. Works well at this
> > > point in time. The first few attempts a couple months ago were
> > > pretty shoddy, but it works well now. Also note the recent
> > > switch from 4.0.2 -> 4.0.3, so there may be some kinks again.
> > >
> > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >
> > > On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 10:07:12AM -0700, Ben Barrett wrote:
> > > > Rob, just use woody instead of potato : )
> > > > 'works fine for me -- only complaint is that KDE starts
> > > > by default, not enlightenment...
> > > >
> > > > ben
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, 14 May 2001, Rob Hudson wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Anyone tried the debs for X4? I think branden [1] has some of X4.0.3,
> > > > > but was curious how well they work. I've done the binary install of
> > > > > X4 before, but if the debian install is better, I'll give that a shot
> > > > > (I'm rebuilding my system).
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > Rob
> > > > >
> > > > > References:
> > > > > [1] http://people.debian.org/~branden/
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
