On 30 December 2011 17:00, Chris Malton chr...@cmalton.me.uk wrote:
Apologies - I meant testing.
s/unstable/testing/g on that last email!
Go for Testing , Its more stable than all the ubuntu releases except
the LTS one , since its been long since 10.04 was released , testing
would be your best
I'm going to do a reinstall of my home server which currently runs
debian stable. I want to put a more up-to-date distro on it and am
thinking either debian unstable or ubuntu server. I'm edging towards
debian but, despite some googling, it's not clear to me how many broken
packages/problems
Is there a particular reason for running unstable on a server? do you need to
support very recent hardware or something? I would advise that you run a stable
distro (or if you really have to, testing). Running unstable will not be a
pleasant experience, so I wouldn't do it without a REALLY good
Hi Leo,
Unstable does throw a wobbly once in a while I'm running it on my
desktop.
Occasionally (maybe once a month or so) you get the odd broken package,
but it's not a regular thing, and usually you can work around it.
For me the only thing I have to remember is to run apt-get update
On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 11:09:38 +, li...@fractal.me.uk said:
I'm going to do a reinstall of my home server which currently runs
debian stable. I want to put a more up-to-date distro
What problem are you trying to solve?
--
You can have everything in life you want if you help enough other
On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 11:09:38 +
Leo li...@fractal.me.uk wrote:
I'm going to do a reinstall of my home server which currently runs
debian stable. I want to put a more up-to-date distro on it and am
thinking either debian unstable or ubuntu server. I'm edging towards
debian but, despite
On 30/12/11 11:32, Keith Edmunds wrote:
On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 11:09:38 +, li...@fractal.me.uk said:
I'm going to do a reinstall of my home server which currently runs
debian stable. I want to put a more up-to-date distro
What problem are you trying to solve?
The main problem is that some
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 12:40:26PM +, john lewis wrote:
I have been running Debian unstable on my main system with no serious
problems for more than 5 years.
It isn't any problem to maintain
Eep! Please don't run Debian unstable unless like John you know what
you're doing and you're
