On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 03:28:36PM -0500, cothrige wrote: > * Andrei Popescu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 08:36:20AM -0500, cothrige wrote: > > > > Scenario1: You install stable (now sarge) and the entry in your sources.list > > is 'stable'. When etch will be released the next dist-upgrade will upgrade > > your whole system to etch *without* reinstalling. You should read the > > release > > notes first though, especially for production machines. > > Unfortunately I would have to reinstall, and now that I have things > moving along nicely I would hate to go through that. Plus, since > things are not really messed up yet I suppose I have no reason to go > to stable at this point. And didn't I read somewhere that December is > the date for the next release? If so, I see even less reason to hurry.
This was just a scenario to explain the differences between using 'stable' and 'sarge' in the sources list. As 'etch' is approaching release - by debian standards we are pretty close :) - it is getting more and more stable. And it is pretty up-to-date as well. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
