Re: What is the state of testing?

2010-04-12 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun, 2010-04-11 at 22:27 -0500, Karl Schmidt wrote: Last time I did an install I ended up with having to pull mostly from unstable and enought things were broken that I ended up reinstalling lenny. Is anyone finding it usable as a desktop machine at this point? Seems to be working well

Re: What is the state of testing?

2010-04-12 Thread Vikram Vincent
Last time I did an install I ended up with having to pull mostly from unstable and enought things were broken that I ended up reinstalling lenny. Yes, I remember that it was a problem with upgrading to udev-150 something. It would cause the kernel and other packages to not be installed. --

Re: What is the state of testing?

2010-04-12 Thread Christopher Judd
On Monday 12 April 2010 00:30:18 Dean Hamstead wrote: To get recent nvidia cards to work, i have found that unstable is required. Fortunately it's quite stable with aptitude safe-upgrades occasionally performed with a little caution. I wouldn't recommend it for anyone who can't fix

Re: What is the state of testing?

2010-04-12 Thread Jaime Ochoa Malagón
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 10:27 PM, Karl Schmidt k...@xtronics.com wrote: Last time I did an install I ended up with having to pull mostly from unstable and enought things were broken that I ended up reinstalling lenny. Is anyone finding it usable as a desktop machine at this point? What is

Re: What is the state of testing?

2010-04-12 Thread Cavan D. Mejias
maybe bad form on a Debian list (if so, apologies to offended parties) but: sidux.com On 11 April 2010 23:27, Karl Schmidt k...@xtronics.com wrote: Last time I did an install I ended up with having to pull mostly from unstable and enought things were broken that I ended up reinstalling lenny.

What is the state of testing?

2010-04-11 Thread Karl Schmidt
Last time I did an install I ended up with having to pull mostly from unstable and enought things were broken that I ended up reinstalling lenny. Is anyone finding it usable as a desktop machine at this point? What is the state of KD4? ( the special backport went away last time..)

Re: What is the state of testing?

2010-04-11 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Monday 12 April 2010 05:27:58 Karl Schmidt wrote: Last time I did an install I ended up with having to pull mostly from unstable and enought things were broken that I ended up reinstalling lenny. When was last time? Thierry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: What is the state of testing?

2010-04-11 Thread thib
Everything is fine [1]. ;-) [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uriZZ3Slz74 -thib -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4bc2a475.5020...@stammed.net

Re: What is the state of testing?

2010-04-11 Thread Dean Hamstead
To get recent nvidia cards to work, i have found that unstable is required. Fortunately it's quite stable with aptitude safe-upgrades occasionally performed with a little caution. I wouldn't recommend it for anyone who can't fix occasional wacky problems. Dean On 12/04/2010, at 2:05