Thanks for the tips. If something breaks, I can dual-boot back to RH, but I haven't been spending much time there lately...
Jeff Elkins On Wednesday 12 February 2003 7:26 am, Rob Weir wrote: > On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 08:10:03PM +0100, Jeff Elkins wrote: > > Thank you, Rick and Vineet. > > > > As a newbie, I appreciate your responses. > > > > I'm looking forwarding to exploring Debian. > > Be careful with sid; it's where all the development of Debian takes > place, and it's undergoing quite a transition at the moment. GCC 3.2 is > now the default compiler, which has caused every single C++ program and > library to be gradually rebuilt and uploaded. Since sid is continuously > available, even during times like this, it might be impossible to > install a particular package at any point in time. This doesn't happen > often, but it does happen; particularly with KDE3, which is entering > the archive at the moment. > > Make sure you can afford to lose the use of your sid partition for a > little while if something breaks, and you'll be just fine :-) > > That said, I've been using sid for a couple of years now, and I've never > lost data, or even had an unbootable/unloginable/unusable system. Go > subscribe to debian-devel-announce (on http://lists.debian.org/) so you > hear about the major transitions before they happen, keep an eye on this > list, and you'll be just fine. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
