Re: stable 3.1 (sarge) or testing 4.0 (etch) for a new user?

2007-01-29 Thread John L Fjellstad
Kevin Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The upgrade from sarge to etch is NOT seamless. Sarge installs 2.4 kernel. 2.4 support is dropped in etch, so you should upgrade to a 2.6 kernel, which means all the new userspace tools for 2.6 kernel (module-init-tools, udev, etc.) I'm pretty sure

Re: stable 3.1 (sarge) or testing 4.0 (etch) for a new user?

2007-01-29 Thread Chris Lale
Marc Shapiro wrote: [...] A number of people reported problems with the upgrade from XFree86 to Xorg and to using udev. It might be better to start with Etch and just leave it at that. I did a clean install of Etch, myself (for the first time since Bo). I did it for other reasons,

stable 3.1 (sarge) or testing 4.0 (etch) for a new user?

2007-01-28 Thread Oliver Twist
I am a soon-to-be new user of Debian. I have been using other (particularly live) distros for a while to learn linux, but I very much want to move to Debian. In any case, with a new major release (etch - 4.0) coming out soon, I am wondering which release to use right now... the testing

Re: stable 3.1 (sarge) or testing 4.0 (etch) for a new user?

2007-01-28 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun January 28 2007 19:44, Oliver Twist wrote: I am a soon-to-be new user of Debian. I have been using other (particularly live) distros for a while to learn linux, but I very much want to move to Debian. In any case, with a new major release (etch - 4.0) coming out soon, I am wondering

Re: stable 3.1 (sarge) or testing 4.0 (etch) for a new user?

2007-01-28 Thread Joe Smith
Alan Ianson wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun January 28 2007 19:44, Oliver Twist wrote: I am a soon-to-be new user of Debian. I have been using other (particularly live) distros for a while to learn linux, but I very much want to move to Debian. In any case, with a new major

Re: stable 3.1 (sarge) or testing 4.0 (etch) for a new user?

2007-01-28 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Sunday 28 January 2007 22:44, Oliver Twist wrote: In any case, with a new major release (etch - 4.0) coming out soon, I am wondering which release to use right now... the testing release of 4.0 or the stable release of 3.1 ? I would say start with 3.1. If all is well, stick with it. Once

RE: stable 3.1 (sarge) or testing 4.0 (etch) for a new user?

2007-01-28 Thread Kevin Ross
I would say start with 3.1. If all is well, stick with it. Once Etch becomes stable, you can upgrade from 3.1 to 4.0. Unlike other distros, upgrading across stable releases is really easy! I disagree, and here's why: The upgrade from sarge to etch is NOT seamless. Sarge installs 2.4

Re: stable 3.1 (sarge) or testing 4.0 (etch) for a new user?

2007-01-28 Thread Marc Shapiro
Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: On Sunday 28 January 2007 22:44, Oliver Twist wrote: In any case, with a new major release (etch - 4.0) coming out soon, I am wondering which release to use right now... the testing release of 4.0 or the stable release of 3.1 ? I would say start with 3.1.