I call Debian guilty of 2 counts :-) 1) Too easy user interface for the upgrade and maintenance. 2) Too stable for "testing" distribution.
Read on to find out why: On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 10:20:04AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > I've been seeing a lot of discussions in various places about a rocky > Potato -> Woody upgrade path. I've upgraded 3 systems from Potato to > Woody (and subsequently upgraded 2 of those to sid) and have yet to have > any major problem. ` Same here. I use half mixture of sid and woody using /etc/apt/preferences just to be on safe side. I remember it was tough about a year ago, when lilo, libc6, ... etc. broke system. No thrill at all running testing :) > Using the precompiled 2.4.14 kernel made one of my systems unbootable, > but that was easily remedied by booting from my Potato CD and > recompiling a new kernel by hand. This is typical skill level people needs to run testing confidently. Good for you. Just because it is so easy to do "apt-get dist-upgrade", too many newbies tend to upgrade Debian to unstable without realizing dangers involved, that is the problem. -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ +++++ Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D Visit Debian reference http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/quick-reference/ There are 6 files: index.{en|fr|it}.html quick-reference.{en|fr|it}.txt I welcome your constructive criticisms and corrections.
