On Sat, 07 Mar 2015, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Patrick Bartek wrote: > > On Fri, 06 Mar 2015, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > > >> Brian wrote: > >>> On Fri 06 Mar 2015 at 09:27:23 -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > >>> > >>>> On Fri, 06 Mar 2015, Ken Heard wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> Thanks everybody for the collected wisdom. So for me now Jessie > >>>>> RC1 is it. > >>>> FYI: Do daily updates using dist-upgrade, instead of upgrade (or > >>>> the equivalent with aptitude, if you use that). Things change > >>>> quickly and sometimes majorly on the path to Stable. You'll want > >>>> to get ALL those changes -- minor and major. "Upgrade" won't do > >>>> that. This is recommended by Debian. Once Jessie is Stable, > >>>> revert to "upgrade" for the most part. > >>> I agree with everything but the final sentence. Stable is unlikely > >>> to pull in any new packages but if it does you will likely need > >>> them. In other words, 'dist-upgrade' should be the norm for > >>> stable. > >>> > >> Somehow, anything that needs daily updates, or upgrades, does not > >> meet any definition of "stable" that I'm familiar with. > > As far a Debian is concerned, you have the incorrect definition of > > "stable." With Debin "Stable" means "unchanging," without serious > > bugs, not less prone to crash. It's confusing, I agree. I wish a > > different term had been chosen. > > I think the question was quite clear as to meaning - the OP asked is > Jessie (i.e., Debian stable), stable (in the plain English use of the > word) enough for general use. Not confusing at all.
In my reply to the OP (not the one above to you), I said that Jessie, even as an RC1, was suitable for general use. But that daily update/dist-upgrades were necessary to keep it so as it made its way toward Stable. FWIW, the Jessie Beta1 I installed (terminal only) in a VM months ago has had no problems. And I've dist-upgraded it only twice. I've even converted it to sysvinit. Not even a hiccup. My intent was to ultimately convert to runit and runitinit for testing, but only installed runit. No problems. As far as runitinit, that conversion's been on the backburner for weeks. > > > > [snip] B -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150307095123.02f36...@debian7.boseck208.net
