Re: stable 3.1 (sarge) or testing 4.0 (etch) for a new user?

2007-01-29 Thread Chris Lale
Marc Shapiro wrote: [...] A number of people reported problems with the upgrade from XFree86 to Xorg and to using udev. It might be better to start with Etch and just leave it at that. I did a clean install of Etch, myself (for the first time since Bo). I did it for other reasons, actuall

Re: stable 3.1 (sarge) or testing 4.0 (etch) for a new user?

2007-01-29 Thread John L Fjellstad
"Kevin Ross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The upgrade from sarge to etch is NOT seamless. Sarge > installs 2.4 kernel. 2.4 support is dropped in etch, > so you should upgrade to a 2.6 kernel, which means > all the new userspace tools for 2.6 kernel (module-init-tools, > udev, etc.) I'm pretty

Re: stable 3.1 (sarge) or testing 4.0 (etch) for a new user?

2007-01-28 Thread Marc Shapiro
Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: On Sunday 28 January 2007 22:44, Oliver Twist wrote: In any case, with a new major release (etch - 4.0) coming out soon, I am wondering which release to use right now... the testing release of 4.0 or the stable release of 3.1 ? I would say start with 3.1. I

RE: stable 3.1 (sarge) or testing 4.0 (etch) for a new user?

2007-01-28 Thread Kevin Ross
> I would say start with 3.1. If all is well, stick with it. > Once Etch becomes > stable, you can upgrade from 3.1 to 4.0. Unlike other > distros, upgrading > across stable releases is really easy! I disagree, and here's why: The upgrade from sarge to etch is NOT seamless. Sarge installs 2.

Re: stable 3.1 (sarge) or testing 4.0 (etch) for a new user?

2007-01-28 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Sunday 28 January 2007 22:44, Oliver Twist wrote: > In any case, with a new major release (etch - 4.0) coming out soon, I am > wondering which release to use right now... the testing release of 4.0 or > the stable release of 3.1 ? > I would say start with 3.1. If all is well, stick with it. On

Re: stable 3.1 (sarge) or testing 4.0 (etch) for a new user?

2007-01-28 Thread Joe Smith
"Alan Ianson" wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun January 28 2007 19:44, Oliver Twist wrote: I am a soon-to-be new user of Debian. I have been using other (particularly live) distros for a while to learn linux, but I very much want to move to Debian. In any case, with a new major r

Re: stable 3.1 (sarge) or testing 4.0 (etch) for a new user?

2007-01-28 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun January 28 2007 19:44, Oliver Twist wrote: > I am a soon-to-be new user of Debian. I have been using other > (particularly live) distros for a while to learn linux, but I very much > want to move to Debian. > > In any case, with a new major release (etch - 4.0) coming out soon, I am > wonde