On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 12:58 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> I ran testing (etch) for about 4 months before it became stable since I > had just bought a new computer with SATA and nVidia GB eth. > > OTOH, recently here I've seen threads about libc6 breaking on lenny. > That gives one's computer a heart attack requireing a transplant. I'm > sure it can be fixed if you have a live CD and great knowledge. When it > happend to my 486 upgrading from Sarge to Etch, I had neither. > > The main purpose of testing is, well, testing. If you don't need it, > why run it? > > Doug. Yes, I can understand your point. On a second thought, "is it possible to mix up some packages from lenny into my etch box?" Because, some latest packages are in lenny can be useful. like, latest sun-java (in lenny it's latest) will be helpful for me. also latest version of media players, openoffice. can I do it? will it be okay? -- Arijit Sarkar Kolkata, India Gnome on Debian GNU/Linux
