On Thursday 13 April 2006 6:36 am, Žáček Kryštof wrote: > look - STABLE is too outdated for desktop, TESTING is often broken more than 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.
Indeed I have been running Sid here for about two years. Works a treat. > 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. One life saver if you run Sid is apt-listbugs. Assuming there has been a serious bug reported against it, it will list it and prompt you if you want to upgrade anyway. -- "The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it." - Thomas Jefferson
