On Thu, 30 Oct 1997, Ranty wrote:
> I thought of using a newer unstable distribution with all those
> aplications copiled for libc6 but then... How unstable are those
> distributions?
If you follow the libc5-to-libc6 mini-howto that's posted here frequently,
it's not bad. I've been running unstable since june, and haven't had any
serious problems.
> Why are they called unstable?...
They're not fully tested, and they're under flux -- sometimes a new
version of a package in unstable may be uploaded frequently,
as the maintainer works out something.
Will
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