On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 01:36:00PM +0200, ???ek Kry?tof wrote: > I agree, but only partially. > > look - STABLE is too outdated for desktop, TESTING is often broken more than > unstable (mainly missing dependancies or completely missing apps (e.g. K3b > was absent from testing for many months!)). SID appears to be the best choice > for Debian desktop (regardless to what official policy states) and as such it > is chosen by many.
I agree with you on this. I've been running straight sid desktop for over a year now and its great. > > Yes, I am ready do deal with minor breakages. However, X not starting, KDE ot > starting ... this is not a minor problem but a fatal show stopper. This > proves lack of software quality testing in the Debian release model. In my > opinion the released Xorg 7 package belongs still to experimental. > Well, I don't know the policy for experimental, but based on a few anecdotal things, I think we've been experiencing a particularly good run in sid for a while and maybe we've been lulled into thinking its better than we should. A
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