On (14/04/05 21:32), Pete wrote: > To: [email protected] > From: Pete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 21:32:45 +1000 > Subject: Current Sid vs Sarge > > Hi all, > > Just wondering how the stability of Sid is at the moment compared with > Sarge? > > I'm having issues with MPPE support in Sarge and I think I need to try a > later kernel and ppp and the most straight forward way I can see to do > this is to upgrade to Sid. > > My main conerns for stability are firefox, thunderbird, vmware GSX > server (with appropriate patch and ia32 libs that is), and > openoffice.org (chroot is fine). Oh, and I also use gnome rather than > kde if that makes a difference. Sid runs fine here since January, I use xfce4.2 (I found kde increasingly clunky and a little unstable). Only issue you may have is flash in firefox. I run OOo and firefox from the 32bit chroot as described in the excellent amd64 howto.
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