>> "S" == Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: S> I'm now wondering if anyone has any comments on how "stable" the S> unstable distribution is in general.
Pretty OK, but there are some known problems with glibc2.1 Netscape gets unstable. Sometimes gives a bus error when closing a window -> closing all of netscape. Basic authentication (the paswod boxes) have problems. For username and/or password longer than 8 characters, it is very likely, that netscape will give a bus error. Sometimes netscape hangs, and if I kill it, it will kill the X server. No genuine fix available (the joys of no available source...). I think I will try to install the libc5 netscapae. JDK1.1 It used some internal symbols in libc, not available any more. A fixed version is available in Incoming. Staroffice Problem like in JDK. There is a workaround, by preloading glibc2. I don't have the fix available, but it has been posted to this list. Xterm Currently, there is a problem with PAM and xterm, but that is just a "normal" error, not related to glibc2.1 These are the things I encountered. If you still want to give potato a try, use apt. Change sources.list to point to unstable. and do apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade For GNOME or gtk1.2, add the slink gnome staging area to sources.list deb http://www.debian.org/~jim/debian-gtk-gnome/gnome-stage-slink unstable main The verions there are a bit behind potato, but I am recompiling the potato versions for slink right now. Ciao, Martin
