Benjamin Sher wrote: >Dear friends: > >Based on what I have learned tonight about Debian, I am >not certain yet which option I will choose: Etch or Sarge, >testing or stable. > > For a server, you probably want Sarge/Stable.
For a workstation, if you want the latest and greatest, and are willing to risk a little (or a lot) of breakage every so often, you probably want Sid. Why not Etch for a workstation? Because 1. you'll get newer toys faster in Sid, and 2. if something breaks in Sid, it's usually fixed in a couple of days; if something breaks in Testing (Etch), it may be a couple of weeks before it gets fixed (of course, the antithesis of this is that Testing is liable to break less often than Sid, so YMMV). Most of us who run Sid on our workstations still see more reliability than we ever saw when we were running Windows. In other words, for a workstation, Sid is not a bad choice at all (for most people). >I do have one more question about Etch: To install it, I have >downloaded the 100 MB + net install ISO file. What >happens when Etch reaches STABLE? > Then you can choose at that point to keep following Etch, or to start following the new Testing. >will I have to start all over >again? > > No-o-o-o-o-o! That's one of the beauties of Debian; you install it once; upgrade it (if you so choose) forever. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
