On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 19:07:46 -0400, Chris wrote in message
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> On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 11:56:09 +0100
> Lee Elliott wrote:
> >
> > I'm using Debian unstable on all my systems atm. There isn't
> > really a version for unstable because it's constantly being
> > updated.
> >
> > However, I'm thinking of dropping back to Debian Testing because
> > every now and then something does get broken and I'd like a
> > slower update cycle.
..if Sid is too unstable, you probably wanna run Sarge and possibly with
backports.
> Take this step with care. I don't mean to discourage you -- I
> generally run testing, myself -- but it's important to know what
> you're getting into. For instance, you comment that one of the
> reasons for switching from unstable to testing is breakage; but
> breakage happens in testing too. Not as frequently, and it's
> typically a different sort of breakage (e.g. uninstallable
> packages because of unsatisfied dependancies when something
> came down from unstable to testing, but not all its dependancies
> made it for some reason), but breakage does happen. More
> importantly, when stuff does get broken, it can take *much
> longer* to get fixed. About a year before Sarge came out,
> for instance, KDE was fundamentally broken in testing for about
> four months.
..hear, hear, bugs are fixed _much_ quicker in Sid ("un-stable"),
just report (or better fix) whatever you find.
> Testing isn't really a distribution that's intended for general
> use; a lot of people think that it's some kind of intermediate
> state between stable and unstable; it isn't. It's a different
> animal entirely.
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