Updating Testing workstations has proved to be much more time-consuming than expected.
In the last four months there have been approx 13,000 package updates in Testing, of which approx 1,000 applied to a typical workstation here. During the same period there were approx 800 package updates in Stable, of which approx 160 applied to a typical workstation here. Unfortunately, we only have one workstation that can run Stable. Some need Testing and most need a combination of Testing and Unstable. In particular, xserver-xorg 7.3 is only available in Unstable although Ubuntu is already shipping 7.3 in their long-term-support release. We often have to use an Unstable kernel too, although that's not currently the case. However I'm not keen on Ubuntu as I find some of their ideas quirky and I'm concerned about limited security updates for their Universe. We could (a) continue using Debian Testing, or (b) try Ubuntu (again), or (c) ... ? Any non-flaming thoughts as to which distro to use for workstations? TIA, --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
