On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 04:01:20PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > > >Indeed. I actually meant my statement to be in support of the stable > >distribution. I guess I should have made that clearer. > > > >Still, no one benefits from having blinders over their eyes. Stable is > >the most stable, and it's also the least current. I don't see how it > >could be any other way. They're on opposite ends of the same spectrum. > > > > > > For me its lack of currency is becoming a serious problem. I'm deploying > new systems: do I really want to deploy software that's not going to be > supported much beyond a year? Do I really want to go through migration > to new releases just after I've got it bedded down?
That's the beauty of stable. It _is_ supported for well over a year. Actually, make that two years. The only problem _right now_ is that if you go with stable _now_, there is sarge coming. But apart from that, stable is supported for years. > No I don't. > > My choices are going with testing: what then about security patches? or > unstable? From my reading it's not unknown for unstable to be seriously > borked for a time: I think new glibc did it a while ago, and gcc was > forecast to do it shortly after. > > If I want to support a USB Laserjet 1200, then I really need the latest > hpoj stuff: Woody is far too old. Woody is old, but have you looked at www.backports.org? A list of well-supported backports is available there. Security updates will be a tad slower than unstable, which is behind stable. But then, you're not backporting glibc, but imap servers or whatever. > What I find myself doing increasingly is building the occasional package > from Sid for Woody: sometimes it's easy, sometimes it's too much trouble > (think xfree where I think I found circular dependancies). Also, see www.apt-get.org for various backports, including xfree. But then, www.backports.org also has an xfree backport. Check it out. David -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus. Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
