Angus Leeming wrote: > Incidentally, Matej, which Debian flavour do you use?
testing (soon to be stable, but I will probably keep with testing). > I have a machine > running Debian unstable at work and keeping it up to date is, not > surprisingly, a continual battle. Unstable is really, well, unstable. With testing I am able to somehow work over dial-up (that "somehow" is that aptitude update downloads 3MB+ of data, and that sucks) with occasional taking notebook to some friendly Internet cafe or university, when I want to actually upgrade (that could be 100MB+ of packages, especially when KDE is upgraded, which was pretty often this year). If you have broadband at home, then I do not see any problem with Debian/testing whatsoever. It is just six months of experience but I have never experienced any hiccup with testing (and I know there were some with unstable, even though it was kept slightly back, because sarge was being frozen last year). It may get slightly wilder ride when unstable will be open wide again and we could get some broken packages into testing -- but then certainly sid will be more broken then it is now as well, so eck will be still much better choice IMHO. > Indeed, it would be impractical to use > at home. However, Debian stable is, well a little tooooo stable :) I was able to work with Debian stable until the spring of this year with a lot of backports <http://www.backports.org> and KDE backports, but when I got a new computer, I gave up on that and have been using sarge since then, and it serves me pretty well. > I quite like the Fedora twice yearly update cycle, but also like Debian's > "you don't need to reinstall the entire machine, just update the packages > as and when they are improved". I do not know anything about Fedora (I gave up on RedHat when it was IIRC 7.0), but ability of Debian people to held whole distribution together so well as they do never stops to amaze me (and the fact, that I do not have to hunt packages all over the Internet anymore). And yes I am willing to pay price in getting slower updates than rest of the world -- when it is just slightly slower, not woody. Best, Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. -- Anatole France
