Re: Concerning testing

2004-05-15 Thread Clive Menzies
On (14/05/04 22:44), Silvan wrote: > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 22:44:42 -0400 > Subject: Re: Concerning testing > > On Friday 14 May 2004 10:17 am, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > conclusion was that Unstable

Re: Concerning testing

2004-05-14 Thread Silvan
On Friday 14 May 2004 10:17 am, Anthony Campbell wrote: > conclusion was that Unstable is the way to go in preference to Testing, > especially as regards security updates. It probably is at that, but it sure is more annoying. Packages in Testing break once in awhile. Package in Unstable break

Re: Concerning testing

2004-05-14 Thread John Chronakis
Anthony Campbell wrote: On 14 May 2004, Clive Menzies wrote: On (14/05/04 15:17), Anthony Campbell wrote: On 14 May 2004, John Chronakis wrote: Hi, Although I am an old Linux user, I have never used debian, and I am a bit confused about the va

Re: Concerning testing

2004-05-14 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 14 May 2004, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (14/05/04 15:17), Anthony Campbell wrote: > > On 14 May 2004, John Chronakis wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Although I am an old Linux user, I have never used debian, and I am a > > > bit confused about the various versions. > > > > > > I would like to instal

Re: Concerning testing

2004-05-14 Thread Clive Menzies
On (14/05/04 15:17), Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 14 May 2004, John Chronakis wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Although I am an old Linux user, I have never used debian, and I am a > > bit confused about the various versions. > > > > I would like to install testing (sarge) on a small business server > > (g

Re: Concerning testing

2004-05-14 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 14 May 2004, John Chronakis wrote: > Hi, > > Although I am an old Linux user, I have never used debian, and I am a > bit confused about the various versions. > > I would like to install testing (sarge) on a small business server > (gateway, firewall, mail, web, ftp etc). > I know that I should

Re: Concerning testing

2004-05-14 Thread Mal Beaton
The company I work for installs debian servers (gateway, firewall, mail web etc) I would strongly recommend stable Most of what you need is on stable. If you need anything extra you could probably get it from backports. Sit down and have a look at what you need I wrote a howto and posted it t

Concerning testing

2004-05-14 Thread John Chronakis
Hi, Although I am an old Linux user, I have never used debian, and I am a bit confused about the various versions. I would like to install testing (sarge) on a small business server (gateway, firewall, mail, web, ftp etc). I know that I should install stable, but somehow I don't want to. So I