On 05/22/2017 12:28 PM, Anil Duggirala wrote: > thanks a lot Fungi, > I want to reinstall the whole system, so I will download Strech RC 3 > from here https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ > and then after finishing installation will change 'testing' for > 'jessie', can I do that? > thanks a lot, > No, after installing, you want to change testing for stretch...in fact, I would use stretch just to start with, then no change will be needed after installation. If you do a fresh install with the stretch installation CD/DVD, then it should handle the sources.list file for you, and you won't have to change anything.
> P.S. sorry for spamming your email Fungi > > > On Mon, May 22, 2017, at 10:08 AM, Kent West wrote: >> >> >> On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 9:51 AM, Fungi4All <fungil...@protonmail.com >> <mailto:fungil...@protonmail.com>> wrote: >> >> >> >> The only thing to fear is stability, or too much of it. I have >> run stretch and sid (testing and unstable currently) and I get a >> sense that sid is even lighter and more stable in hardware >> resources. With all the fooling around I do I have yet to see >> anything break or freeze or do anything unexpected in sid. >> Stretch is so stable it is boring :) Now Jessie, that is a >> really unstable system ;b .... even your graphics don't like it. >> >> >> I have run sid (unstable) for years (a decade? more?), and although >> there's often little breakages (uh oh, can't install Firefox; wait a >> day and a half; okay, all better now, it's installed), I can only >> recall one time (8 years ago? 10?) when the breakage was serious >> enough that it actually borked my box so I couldn't do anything with >> it. But even that, as I recall, only had me broken a day or so, as I >> either manually fixed it, or just reinstalled a fresh sid, or waited >> until the breakage "fixed itself". The conclusion I have come to after >> all these years is that for a workstation that doesn't have a >> mission-critical need for five-9's uptime, sid/unstable is a good >> solution for staying up-to-date and happy, but it's probably not >> suitable for a mission-critical box. >> >> >> -- >> Kent West <")))>< >> Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com > -- 73's, WB5VQX -- The Very Quick X-ray
