At 03:39 PM 2/9/03 +0100, Jos Lemmerling wrote:
On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, cr wrote:
> The time has come for an upgrade (oh, okay, a reinstall) and I think
> Debian sounds promising (I'm currently on RH7.2).
>
> I'm sure there are Debian users on this list, which version would you
> recommend? I want something reasonably up-to-date (doesn't need to be the
> very latest) but solid and reliable and preferably easy to handle.
> Also one that will work well with Gnome and KDE apps.
I'd recommend the latest stable release; 3.0r1 (Woody). It works fine with
the gnome and kde-proggies I run, is very solid and easy to handle.
More info on this release:
http://www.debian.org/News/2002/20020719
Jos is probably right in his recommendation (especially as advice for a beginner), but I want to add a note of caution: Woody does pay a price for being "stable" in that (a) many newer apps are completely missing from it and (b) the apps present are often well back of the latest versions.
Here, I use Woody (stable) on servers that need to run reliably 24/7 and that do not offer "bleeding edge" services. But the development work I do involves applications for processing of video, and that area is changing far too rapidly for use of Woody to work ... so my workstations all use Sid (unstable), and I occasionally pay the price that some app stops running after an update, while the Debian maintainers sort out compatibility issues.
In the end, you need to look at the details to move from the vague notion of "something reasonably up-to-date" to a more precise one of "able to do the tasks I need to do".
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