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,
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> 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
