Sandip Bhattacharya wrote:
Aaargh! You expect me to do a complete upgrade over network? I dont live in US dude! What about in amchi Dilli!
I have been using Debian unstable full-time since July now and am extremely happy with it! Agreed that here I've very few download constraints--sitting on 5 2Mbps lines :-D
I do a apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade daily to stay on the bleeding edge. I tried this as an experiment first to see how often things break. They do break but not very often. I would say that unstable is the most updated gnu/linux distribution I have used, provided you have a means to keep up with the updates.
It is recommended that you run stable as you are most likely to get support for it from debian peers. Testing is also supported. but if you
No. Testing is for me .. even though the Debian site make ominous statements that even the testing doesnt have support.
True there are no "security updates" for testing or unstable, but that is just because they upgrade the packages themselves to a higeher version rather than backporting a security patch like in stable.
Stable is THE way to go for servers where you may not need bleeding edge stuff, but IMHO unstable is the one cut out for desktops (atleast for people like us ;-)
Any clue as to which year in this millenium, the sarge is going to be stable? ;)
Who knows? ;-)
Okay I have tried and tested an alternate installation strategy and it works great. I get the latest knoppix CD (knoppix = debian testing/unstable + some important stuff from experimental and elsewhere, like XFree86 4.3...). Then I install knoppix to the hard disk using the knopix-install script. This gives us a packed (rather heavily so) desktop with everything you want in it!
Then I just edit the /etc/apt/sources.list to point to unstable and do a apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade. The first time requires a bit of fighting but after that its smooth sailing. I agree that this gives a bulky installation with stuff you may never need... so its your choice whether you want to go from bare-bones to what you want (traditional woody->sid way) or thin-down a bulky install to what you want (knoppix->sid way).
PS: So what are you up to these days? I miss being in Delhi :-(
-- Vipul Mathur <vipul[at]linux-delhi.org>
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