I've been using Debian Testing for some time now and I have used Sid in the past. I did, of course, encounter Sid's 'unstable' nature from time to time but not so with testing. The problem of old packages is history and I have no major issues of stability or bugs. The fact that it is a 'rolling release' means that you 'apt-get dist-upgrade' periodically and you never have old packages. ;)
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 2:33 AM, Gustin Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Rick Johnson <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I noticed Debian is conspicuously absent from your list here. Would have > > answered all the problems you've described here I think. Ubuntu tends to > be > > rushed out the door in my opinion and usually has problems. Gentoo, > well... > > who the hell has that much time on their hands to piss away? Debian is > > always rock-solid and quick. Even the Mint folks admit on their site that > > the new Debian-based version is quicker and more stable than the > > Ubuntu-based. ;) > > I have long been a fan of Debian. I switched to Ubuntu because it > originally "corrected" my biggest complaints with Debian, namely the > over conservative nature which lead to really stale packages and > significant lag when compared to upstream. Now it seems that the only > Ubuntu worth running is the LTS editions, with the others being > nothing more than buggy betas that do not have time to stabilize > before they are replaced. > > I think that I fast coming back to the Debian camp. > > The reviews made for an interesting read. I do not share most his > conclusions (I think he really comes down hard on Fedora, I don't mind > yum at all). Also Gentoo does not require you to compile of > everything if you don't want to. > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying >
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