On Sat, 17 Apr 2004 22:29:15 -0700 "Loren M. Lang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm curious about how many people are actually using Debian Unstable > or Testing to Stable for normal desktop use or even a production > server. I've being using Gentoo lately, and I love how nice the newer > software is like KDE 3.2.1 or Gnome 2.4 and I don't want to go back to > Gnome 1.x just because I want a "stable" debian system, where gentoo > seems to run fine with the latest. > -- > I sense much NT in you. > NT leads to Bluescreen. > Bluescreen leads to downtime. > Downtime leads to suffering. > NT is the path to the darkside. > Powerful Unix is. > > Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc > Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C > > Hi Well, I'm running unstable on 3 computers: 1 Laptop, 1 Workstation and my gateway/router, witch is laso used as a file/printserver & workstation wothout great troubles. 2 things though: it is my home network gateway and more important, second: sometimes (rarely), you can get suprises when updating: once for example, when updating samba there was a new security feature: passwords can expire, and it was activated automatically. resulting from this samba stop working for the users while i was on holiday...you won't have this in stable. Or sometimes updates are really broken, which is espacially is anoing if it is a libary...or for example hotplug was broken lately with a coldplugged mouse did not work anymore and i had to downgrade it manually... so if you absolutly need a rock solid system with _security updates_ you should go for stable. If you do not mind some mostly minor problems you can go for unstable....no real expirience with testing...I only briefly used it just before woody became stable.... this is just my opinion - i hope it helps.. yours Albert -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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