----- Original Message ----- From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 08:14 Subject: Re: Fw: X Windos System will not start
> Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > >From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > >>If you haven't tried updating to testing or sid, you might give that a shot. > >> > >> > >I'm not experienced enough for *unstable*. > > > > > > "stable" and "unstable" refers more to the changeability of packages > more than to brokenness/usability. In other words, if you upgrade to > unstable at the right time (in my experience, the "right time" has been > about 85% of the time), you'll wind up with a very usable system that > has much newer software than what is in stable. Of the remaining 15% of > the time that's not the "right time", you'll get some sort of brokenness > in your system. Probably 12% of the time that brokenness will get fixed > with an upgrade within a week; the other 3% is some sort of serious > brokenness (like a bug in PAM preventing new logins - doh!) or long-term > brokenness that takes several weeks to sort out (so that you can't > install foo because of a broken dependency on bar, etc). Once you have a > working unstable box, it'll stay working as long as you don't do another > upgrade (of course, then you're not getting bug/vulnerability fixes, so > it's a trade-off). > > I run unstable on all my desktop boxes, and stable only on the servers. > unstable on the desktop has been _way_ more usable than WindowsXP on > the desktop, in my experience. > > > -- > Kent > > Ok Sold. I'm game but I need to get stable "stable" enough to get PPP working. XP means eXtreem Pain in the neck. Regards; Hoyt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
