* Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070920 21:10]: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 04:28:09PM -0400, Gregory O'Neal wrote: > > I am new to linux. I have been running Etch for a month or so now on > > my Gateway Desktop. I am considering moving up to testing. This brings > > up the question of what is the proper way to accomplish the upgrade? > > May I humbly suggest that you may not have had time to learn enough > about linux or Debian to run testing? It is, after all, _testing_.
Humbug! Your comment may be applicable to "unstable", but not to "testing". I ran "unstable" for about two years, and I experienced very few difficulties. "Stable" perhaps is appropriate in a commercial environment in which it is prudent to sacrifice enhancements in order to gain absolute reliability. I have been running Debian "testing" for three or four years, and I personally have found it more stable and bug-free than the production versions of RedHat, Mandrake, and SuSE. And there simply is no comparison between the reliability of "testing" and M$ Window$ (which novices all over the world are running). On rare occasion, update of a package may leave something broken, but I never have found such problems to be terribly serious, and they typically are corrected with a few weeks at most -- most often, within a few days -- simply by allowing Synaptic to update packages whenever package updates are available. RLH -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
