On Fri July 6 2007 07:19:20 pm Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > I ran Etch for about 6 months before it became stable since my new box > required it. I'm runing amd64.
I've always considered myself a "stable" man, but it never seems to work out that way.. ;) > One of the main reasons for buying a new box was, believe it or not, > that my 486 had difficulty with all the over-graphiced web pages I > needed to access. > > Now I'm finding that a lot of the sites I need use flash not just for > decoration but the main content. Of course, Etch amd64 doesn't have the > wrapper that allows me to use a flash player without using an i386 > chroot. I never did do a chroot but I do even to this day have a small stable-i386 partition installed. I haven't used it in a while now, I think I can probably drop it now without missing it. > I'm still trying to get it to work but if I can't, I'm wondering about > just moving up to Lenny. I went from etch to lenny recently. I didn't see anything interesting so I moved up to sid about an hour later. Sid sure seems stable at the moment. I'm sure there are bugs about but I just don't see any. There is the odd package that doesn't install because of depends and what not but few and far between. Sid looks a lot like release material to me now. Better wait and see what tomorrow has in store.. :)) > I know from Etch that testing is not stable. Things stop working for a > while and then a fix comes down the pipe. In the mean time, use > something else. I undertand all that. However, since this is my main > box, I don't want to find that something happens to kill it requiring a > reinstall or something. I'm on dialup. I keep an etch-archives, lenny-archives and sid-archives around the drives and symlink to /var/cache/apt/archives as appropriate just in case I feel the need to change. Still a big job to re-install but it saves a fair bit of downloading. > My daily must-haves really are mild: base system, a brower (lynx or > links2), an editor, mutt, exim, fetchmail, and I like mc, and aptitude > (or apt-get or even dselect or plain dpkg in a pinch), along with > ppp/chat. It wouldn't bother me if anything else stopped working for a > while, but if I loose the ability to dial out, loose email, then I'm in > difficulty. I rarely have difficulty with any console app (I use quite a few of them) in testing/unstable, it's usually the x/gnome/kde stuff that takes time to get in place. Haven't used ppp for some time though. > I know that, just like mutual funds, past performance does not guarantee > future performance, but what has the experience been like for > non-developers over the past couple of months? Do people think that > Lenny is ready for a desktop run by a knowledgeable user? Sid has been a bump and grind, just as expected. I had to remember how to use apt-get b/c aptitude was having issues (runs great now) but if it wasn't so I probably wouldn't enjoy it.. :) Not to sure about lenny. I'm going to install it over the weekend and have a look and see. I think lenny would be easier on the modem line. Sid has had a few openoffice updates in the last few weeks. The current one (2.2.1-5) looks good to get into lenny but we'll see. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
