On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 10:46:34AM -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote: > Johannes Wiedersich wrote the following on 10/31/2009 09:06 AM: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Micha wrote: >> >> [snip some talk about testing and unstable] >> >>> For a desktop you want one of these but there is a debate which. >> >> Not necessarily. I've been running 'lenny' on my workstations for some >> time and it works great. >> >> YMMV, of course. >> >> - -- >> Johannes >> >> Three nations have not officially adopted the International System >> of Units as their primary or sole system of measurement: Burma, >> Liberia, and the United States. > > As long as you don't need any new features or programs there is no need > to ever upgrade. That is generally my situation. > > My wife however, is always discovering something new that she wants to > do. The latest is video creation and editing and at least two of the > programs she wanted to try out required versions of libraries, etc., only > available in Squeeze and newer.
My solution to this situation is to run a mixed system. It gives me the the stability of tried and tested software that Lenny provides but allows me to upgrade to a new version from testing/sid for applications where I really feel I need it. All the dependencies are then pulled in. BTW: I wholeheartedly second that Lenny is great as desktop system. Comparing this to Win98 is more than ridiculous because we're not talking about an OS version from a different era, only about packages that are a few minor version numbers back. In most cases, the functionality is nearly where the testing/sid versions are. When there's a huge gap, that's when I may decide to pull in the latter. Cheers, Norbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
