On Tuesday 01 June 2010 03.08:06 Clemens Schwaighofer wrote: > Besides the fact that new versions come in quite fast (after the wait > phase from unstable to testing)
... and you can always mix testing and unstable. If your testing installation is not too old, usually not much fiddling with dependencies is involved. Reading the apt_preferences manual page and some other Debian documentation to understand how packages are moved between experimental/unstable/testing is strongly recommended, though. I'd hesitate to use unstable for a production machine, though. Even testing is not always a good idea, since security support for testing is not quite as good as for stable. (shameless plug, since we're speaking of Debian ...: <http://blog.fortytwo.ch/archives/84-Order-Your-Debian-Swirl-Umbrella-Now.html>) cheers -- vbi -- Why on earth should we teach children that they are not allowed to share the toys. -- Patrick Harvie, Member of the Scottish Parliament Speaking at Debconf7
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