Re: Debian 2.2 or woody
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 12:41:43PM +0200, Julio Merino wrote: Since I discovered apt :-) in slink, I've been always using the unstable distribution. I would use 2.2, but in that version there are not the latest versions of some programs, for example, emacs, gnome, etc. And the problem of this, is that if I want to get one of this from the unstable I will have to download A LOT of dependencies that will make my installation a 2.2/woody mixture. Depends on your system. If it is just a workstation at home with no important servers running on it and you can live with the fact that you are running an unstable system then I don't see any problems of getting new woody-packages. Phil
Re: Debian 2.2 or woody
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 12:41:43PM +0200, Julio Merino wrote: Hi, I'm going to install a new debian system at home (as I commented in some other messages)... but I'm now wondering if installing the 2.2 or woody version... I can't give you a definitive answer since I've only been using Debian since potato came out. But I've converted my home machine from RH to Debian and have needed to upgrade a few things beyond potato to get some important (to me) features that aren't in the potato versions of some apps. The reason to use potato is stability. You know that the system has been tested as a whole, not just as an assortment of apps. If you keep up with the updates then the system should actually get more stable with time. If you don't value that, go ahead and use woody all over but you know that'll be a constantly shifting surface to stand on. You don't lose out on the security front by using potato since the Debian maintainers back-propagate security/bug fixes. So far I've had no problems with the bits I've added from woody, though I've been compiling from the source packages. Compiling from source not only lets me do any personal config I need but also avoids the problems that would be caused by a binary compiled on a woody system with minor differences in set-up to a potato system. And if there were a major incompatibility, the compilation process will fail meaningfully, in a way that tells me what I might do to fix it. The binary would likely just core dump. -- Bruce Remember you're a Womble.
Re: Debian 2.2 or woody
Julio Merino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 10/09/2000 (14:37) : Since I discovered apt :-) in slink, I've been always using the unstable distribution. I would use 2.2, but in that version there are not the latest versions of some programs, for example, emacs, gnome, etc. And the problem of this, is that if I want to get one of this from the unstable I will have to download A LOT of dependencies that will make my installation a 2.2/woody mixture. Get Debian 2.2. Get HelixGnome. Drop Emacs use vim! ;-) And fetch the other packages you absolutely need from woody. Then you'll have a stable system. -- Preben Randhol - Ph.D student - http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/ i too once thought that when proved wrong that i lost somehow - i was hoping, alanis morisette
Re: Debian 2.2 or woody
Julio Merino wrote: Hi, I'm going to install a new debian system at home (as I commented in some other messages)... but I'm now wondering if installing the 2.2 or woody version... Since I discovered apt :-) in slink, I've been always using the unstable distribution. I would use 2.2, but in that version there are not the latest versions of some programs, for example, emacs, gnome, etc. And the problem of this, is that if I want to get one of this from the unstable I will have to download A LOT of dependencies that will make my installation a 2.2/woody mixture. Any good reasons to use one or another? If not, I'm going to install woody as I've always done... :) Like a few others have said, it really depends on what the system will be used for. If a production server, I'd say stay with potato as much as possible. If a home workstation, I'd say go with whichever strikes your fancy. I've been running woody for a few months now with very few problems. Every now and then a package will get a bit bollixed, but usually gets straightened out in fairly short order. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | He that is slow to believe anything and | everything is of great understanding, '91 GS500E| for belief in one false principle is the Morgantown WV | beginning of all unwisdom. pgppOCsZmAhYI.pgp Description: PGP signature
