Re: Recommendations regarding using Debian Testing

2016-01-07 Thread Francesco Ariis
On Thu, Jan 07, 2016 at 01:07:13AM -0500, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > > > > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ch-choosing > > > > I myself use stable, even thought when I used unstable (not even testing) > > on armhf, I had almost zero problems. > > > > This just made my day. I

Re: Recommendations regarding using Debian Testing

2016-01-06 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 1:04 PM, Francesco Ariis wrote: > On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 11:02:20PM +0530, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: >> I want to use Debian Testing (not Backports, as I had a bad experience), to >> try the latest version of software available. >> However, I am a bit

Re: Recommendations regarding using Debian Testing

2016-01-06 Thread mudongliang
On 01/07/2016 02:07 PM, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 1:04 PM, Francesco Ariis wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 11:02:20PM +0530, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: >>> I want to use Debian Testing (not Backports, as I had a bad experience), to >>> try the latest

Recommendations regarding using Debian Testing

2016-01-05 Thread Himanshu Shekhar
I want to use Debian Testing (not Backports, as I had a bad experience), to try the latest version of software available. However, I am a bit confused regarding whether testing would provide the same level of stability as Stable does! Any recommendations. Thanks for help. Regards Himanshu Shekhar

Re: Recommendations regarding using Debian Testing

2016-01-05 Thread Dan Ritter
On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 11:02:20PM +0530, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > I want to use Debian Testing (not Backports, as I had a bad experience), to > try the latest version of software available. > However, I am a bit confused regarding whether testing would provide the > same level of stability as

Re: Recommendations regarding using Debian Testing

2016-01-05 Thread Charlie Kravetz
On Tue, 5 Jan 2016 23:02:20 +0530 Himanshu Shekhar wrote: >I want to use Debian Testing (not Backports, as I had a bad experience), to >try the latest version of software available. >However, I am a bit confused regarding whether testing would provide the >same level of

Re: Recommendations regarding using Debian Testing

2016-01-05 Thread Francesco Ariis
On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 11:02:20PM +0530, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > I want to use Debian Testing (not Backports, as I had a bad experience), to > try the latest version of software available. > However, I am a bit confused regarding whether testing would provide the > same level of stability as

Re: Recommendations regarding using Debian Testing

2016-01-05 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Tuesday 05 January 2016 23:02:20 Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > I want to use Debian Testing (not Backports, as I had a bad experience), to > try the latest version of software available. > However, I am a bit confused regarding whether testing would provide the > same level of stability as Stable

Re: Recommendations regarding using Debian Testing

2016-01-05 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 05 January 2016 17:32:20 Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > However, I am a bit confused regarding whether testing would provide the > same level of stability as Stable does! Of course not!!! Just look at the names, they tell you all. (And look up the references supplied by other people.)