AW: Stable vs. Testing Vs. Unstable

2004-04-19 Thread Simmel
I'm curious about how many people are actually using Debian Unstable or Testing to Stable for normal desktop use or even a production server. Hi, as my systems are all servers, mainly webservers, I use stable. I'm a paranoid and choose stability security before luxury...but for my

Re: Stable vs. Testing Vs. Unstable

2004-04-19 Thread Nitebirdz
On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 09:14:20AM +0200, Sebastiaan wrote: Unstable I don't use, so I don't have experience with it. All I know from the list is that unstable is often broken, leads sometimes to a complete unworkable system and a lot of Debian package and Linux knowlegde is often required

Re: Stable vs. Testing Vs. Unstable

2004-04-18 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, On Sat, 17 Apr 2004, Loren M. Lang wrote: I'm curious about how many people are actually using Debian Unstable or Testing to Stable for normal desktop use or even a production server. I've being using Gentoo lately, and I love how nice the newer software is like KDE 3.2.1 or Gnome 2.4

Re: Stable vs. Testing Vs. Unstable

2004-04-18 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Loren M. Lang: I'm curious about how many people are actually using Debian Unstable or Testing to Stable for normal desktop use or even a production server. I've never felt any need for anything but stable. I've never been one to think newer is necessarily better. I update for

Re: Stable vs. Testing Vs. Unstable

2004-04-18 Thread Isaac To
Loren == Loren M Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Loren I'm curious about how many people are actually using Debian Loren Unstable or Testing to Stable for normal desktop use or even a Loren production server. I've being using Gentoo lately, and I love Loren how nice the newer

Re: Stable vs. Testing Vs. Unstable ( newbie opinion )

2004-04-18 Thread welly hartanto
I'm a very newbie in Linux system but somehow my first love to Linux is via Debian sid...and I found there's nothing difficult. Sometime I mess up my system but...the more trouble we got the more expert we're gonna be... Maybe that's not what the common users think. They don't wanna be bother to

Re: Stable vs. Testing Vs. Unstable

2004-04-18 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 10:29:15PM -0700, Loren M. Lang wrote: I'm curious about how many people are actually using Debian Unstable or Testing to Stable for normal desktop use or even a production server. I've being using Gentoo lately, and I love how nice the newer software is like KDE 3.2.1

Re: Stable vs. Testing Vs. Unstable

2004-04-18 Thread Albert Dengg
On Sat, 17 Apr 2004 22:29:15 -0700 Loren M. Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm curious about how many people are actually using Debian Unstable or Testing to Stable for normal desktop use or even a production server. I've being using Gentoo lately, and I love how nice the newer software is

Re: Stable vs. Testing Vs. Unstable

2004-04-18 Thread Peter A. Cole
On Sat, 17 Apr 2004 22:29:15 -0700 Loren M. Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm curious about how many people are actually using Debian Unstable or Testing to Stable for normal desktop use or even a production server. I've being using Gentoo lately, and I love how nice the newer software is

Re: Stable vs. Testing Vs. Unstable

2004-04-18 Thread Antony Gelberg
On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 09:14:20AM +0200, Sebastiaan wrote: For ordinairy desktop use I use Testing. Most packages are relatively up-to-date (although some packages are out for a year but not in testing). If I need an up-to-date package, I found it's always relatively easy to recompile it

Re: Stable vs. Testing Vs. Unstable

2004-04-18 Thread Carl Fink
The server I administer runs Stable. My home box that I'm typing this on runs Sarge. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Stable vs. Testing Vs. Unstable

2004-04-18 Thread Brad Sims
On Sunday 18 April 2004 12:29 am, Loren M. Lang wrote: I'm curious about how many people are actually using Debian Unstable or Testing to Stable for normal desktop use or even a production server. I have been running Unstable here for about nine months as my desktop. I switched from a muchly

Re: Stable vs. Testing Vs. Unstable

2004-04-18 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On April 17, 2004 10:29 pm, Loren M. Lang wrote: I'm curious about how many people are actually using Debian Unstable or Testing to Stable for normal desktop use or even a production server. I've being using Gentoo lately, and I love how nice the newer software is like KDE 3.2.1 or Gnome 2.4

Re: Stable vs. Testing Vs. Unstable

2004-04-18 Thread Dave Carrigan
On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 10:29:15PM -0700, Loren M. Lang wrote: I'm curious about how many people are actually using Debian Unstable or Testing to Stable for normal desktop use or even a production server. I've being using Gentoo lately, and I love how nice the newer software is like KDE 3.2.1

Re: Stable vs. Testing Vs. Unstable

2004-04-18 Thread Johan Kullstam
s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Incoming from Loren M. Lang: I'm curious about how many people are actually using Debian Unstable or Testing to Stable for normal desktop use or even a production server. I've never felt any need for anything but stable. Have you ever owned a video

Re: Stable vs. Testing Vs. Unstable

2004-04-18 Thread John L Fjellstad
I use stable on my servers, and testing on my laptop, mostly because of the newer Xfree. I used to have unstable on my workstation when I had a faster connection, but now that I'm back on dialup, I try to update as little as possible and still have a working system. Although on the server, I do

Stable vs. Testing Vs. Unstable

2004-04-17 Thread Loren M. Lang
I'm curious about how many people are actually using Debian Unstable or Testing to Stable for normal desktop use or even a production server. I've being using Gentoo lately, and I love how nice the newer software is like KDE 3.2.1 or Gnome 2.4 and I don't want to go back to Gnome 1.x just because