On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 09:46:20PM +0200, Micha wrote:
My experience over the last 12 years or so is that stable, testing,
unstable talks more about how volatile the distribution is rather than
how stable it actually is.
AIUI, that _is_ the meaning. Think, stable - unchanging. esp in resp to
On Thu, 5 Nov 2009 13:10:37 +1300
Chris Bannister mockingb...@earthlight.co.nz wrote:
AIUI, that _is_ the meaning. Think, stable - unchanging. esp in
resp to API's etc.
unstable - changing frequently at random.
Not to be confused with buggy ness or more likely to crash etc.
The best
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John Hasler wrote:
The difference is that US residents are still permitted the liberty of
using the units with which they are comfortable rather than those which
the all-knowing government imposes.
Of course, units is always there to do the
On Saturday 31 October 2009 12:55:36 Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
Micha wrote:
On 31/10/2009 16:06, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
I've been running 'lenny' on my workstations for some
time and it works great.
I also know people who still run windows 98 and it works great, it
doesn't mean
On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 13:38:55 -0600
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote:
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system anyway. Either that or run pure unstable and have to fight
dependencies during each transition (many of which happen during a
release cycle).
By the time you have enough knowledge to run a
On Monday 02 November 2009 13:47:05 Celejar wrote:
On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 13:38:55 -0600
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote:
system anyway. Either that or run pure unstable and have to fight
dependencies during each transition (many of which happen during a
release cycle).
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.:
On Monday 02 November 2009 13:47:05 Celejar wrote:
I'm not sure that I understand what you mean by 'fighting
dependencies'. I run Sid, and while I occasionally have to hold back
a few packages, and can't always do a complete, full upgrade, it's
simply a matter of
On Monday 02 November 2009 16:31:26 Jochen Schulz wrote:
Another reason for my success may be the fact that in the past I most
often found it easier to reinstall on certain occasions (disk exchange,
re-partitioning) than to restore from a backup (which in turn may be due
to the fact that most
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From: johan...@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: RE: OT: Standards was Re: Does everything depend on
everything?
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:05:09 +0100
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Dennis Wicks wrote:
Sadly, only
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 09:49:08AM -0400, Celejar wrote:
Why does anything have to be wrong? It just means that you'll have to
wait to upgrade the core packages until newer versions of the optional
packages, compatible with the new core packages, become available.
I assume that you're
On 31/10/2009 11:57, Dave Sherohman wrote:
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 09:49:08AM -0400, Celejar wrote:
Why does anything have to be wrong? It just means that you'll have to
wait to upgrade the core packages until newer versions of the optional
packages, compatible with the new core packages,
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Micha wrote:
[snip some talk about testing and unstable]
For a desktop you want one of these but there is a debate which.
Not necessarily. I've been running 'lenny' on my workstations for some
time and it works great.
YMMV, of course.
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On 31/10/2009 16:06, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
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Micha wrote:
[snip some talk about testing and unstable]
For a desktop you want one of these but there is a debate which.
Not necessarily. I've been running 'lenny' on my workstations for some
Johannes Wiedersich wrote the following on 10/31/2009 09:06 AM:
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Micha wrote:
[snip some talk about testing and unstable]
For a desktop you want one of these but there is a debate which.
Not necessarily. I've been running 'lenny' on my
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Micha wrote:
On 31/10/2009 16:06, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
For a desktop you want one of these but there is a debate which.
Not necessarily. I've been running 'lenny' on my workstations for some
time and it works great.
I also know people
On 31/10/2009 19:55, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
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Micha wrote:
On 31/10/2009 16:06, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
For a desktop you want one of these but there is a debate which.
Not necessarily. I've been running 'lenny' on my workstations for some
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 10:46:34AM -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote:
Johannes Wiedersich wrote the following on 10/31/2009 09:06 AM:
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Micha wrote:
[snip some talk about testing and unstable]
For a desktop you want one of these but there is a debate
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Dennis Wicks wrote:
Sadly, only three nations have the good sense not to spend 10's of
millions of their GNP converting to Yet Another Arbitrary System Of
Measurement. Burma, Liberia, and the United States.
FWIW, I don't think that it makes sense
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Johannes Wiedersich
johan...@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de wrote:
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Dennis Wicks wrote:
Sadly, only three nations have the good sense not to spend 10's of
millions of their GNP converting to Yet Another Arbitrary System
Lee Winter writes:
Astute observers will note that the Imperial/American system of units
has already been converted to an ISO basis.
And that the metric system has been an official standard and legal for
trade in the USA since 1866. The USA was one of the original
signatories to the Metre
Today dpkg and dpkg-dev showed up as being held back. When I ran
aptitude -s install dpkg dpkg-dev
the result was that kdebase, kicker, kpersonalizer, ksplash, and
libkonq5 became BROKEN.
Something is wrong somewhere if updating required core packages breaks
optional packages.
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Life is
On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:28:28 -0400
Rick Pasotto r...@niof.net wrote:
Today dpkg and dpkg-dev showed up as being held back. When I ran
aptitude -s install dpkg dpkg-dev
the result was that kdebase, kicker, kpersonalizer, ksplash, and
libkonq5 became BROKEN.
Something is wrong somewhere
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