Sam writes: > I will give Testing a spin and will definitely take another look at > the Debian derivatives. You also made me admire the Debian community, > so that's a big plus on the > reasons-why-I-definitely-need-to-switch-to-Debian list :)
A couple of suggestions if you decide to use Testing or Unstable. Subscribe to the debian-devel list and scan the subject lines often enough to be aware of upcoming transitions that might affect you or kerfuffles that might make you want to delay upgrading until they are resolved. This doesn't really take much time. *Don't* "track" Testing or Unstable by upgrading nightly. I don't understand why people want to do this. A full upgrade (after a test upgrade) about once a month is plenty. If you have packages you need to have the current release of wait until they've been available for a week or so without serious or important bugs that would matter to you. Then do a test upgrade so that you can decide whether you can go right ahead, have to do a full upgrade to make it work, or perhaps should wait a bit. I've been doing this with Unstable for most of this century with very few problems (and none recently). And a caveat: I don't use either Gnome or KDE. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA
