Re: Preinstalled System

2004-09-21 Thread Ulisses Reina Montenegro de Albuquerque
robin wrote: "Sid" is the testing kernel and is more advanced than "Sarge" and will cause you problems; stay away from that one. I would disagree. For a production machine definitely but maybe not a desktop machine. I have run unstable without any problems for 18 months. Maybe I've been lucky

Re: Preinstalled System

2004-09-20 Thread Tim Kelley
On Monday 20 September 2004 19:02, robin wrote: > >"Sid" is the testing kernel and is more advanced than > >"Sarge" and will cause you problems; stay away from > >that one. > > I would disagree. For a production machine definitely but maybe not a > desktop machine. I have run unstable without any p

Re: Preinstalled System

2004-09-20 Thread robin
"Sid" is the testing kernel and is more advanced than "Sarge" and will cause you problems; stay away from that one. I would disagree. For a production machine definitely but maybe not a desktop machine. I have run unstable without any problems for 18 months. Maybe I've been lucky but debian i

Re: Preinstalled System

2004-09-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've decided to buy a PC with Debian Preinstalled. Should I go with "Stable" Woody or "Development" Sarge? Which PC? Why not build a PC, buy the 14CD's and install Sarge? Sarge, definitely. But why not wait until Sarge is stable? Then you won't have to upgrade... Hugo.

Re: Preinstalled System

2004-09-20 Thread Paul Johnson
<#secure method=pgp mode=sign> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I've decided to buy a PC with Debian Preinstalled. Should I go with > "Stable" Woody or "Development" Sarge? I'd say you're safe with either right now. You'll probably want Sarge because it

Re: Preinstalled System

2004-09-20 Thread Eric Dickner
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've decided to buy a PC with Debian Preinstalled. > Should I go with > "Stable" Woody or "Development" Sarge? > I installed stable woody from purchased CD's (which is what you will be buying) and have been able to upgrade it to "Sarge" status by recompiling the