On Sat, 2001-11-17 at 13:52, ben wrote: > > > I've run both Sid and Woody systems, and find that the latter is > > actually slightly more problematic. OTOH, we haven't had a "wipe your > > data" class of error for quite some time, and your chances of exposure > > to this on Sid are far higher than Woody. > > what's the most drastic level of disfunction i could expect with woody? i'm > just trying to guage the amount of free time i have against that required to > enable a certain degree of functionality.
I run Woody on my desktop machine and have almost no trouble with it - there's been the occasional broken package which I've had to roll back after doing an apt-get dist-upgrade, but nothing that took more than a few minutes to figure out and fix (I'm not a Debian guru). Even this doesn't happen often - on average perhaps once every couple of months, purely from personal experience. I might hesitate to use it on a server without good reason, but on a Desktop the far more up-to-date packages make it well worth it. -- Geoff Beaumont [EMAIL PROTECTED]
