Re: sid is not for newbies.

2012-11-16 Thread Curt Howland
. Testing goes through epic fluctuations, things stay broken for months, etc. Seriously, I've found Sid to be far more stable than many other distributions stable releases. I agree that Sid is not for newbies for a first Linux, but it's hardly the land-mind-ridden DMZ at which folks hint. Anyone

Re: sid is not for newbies.

2012-11-16 Thread Jon Dowland
The trouble is that testing is very variable: pretty good from freeze onwards, terrible immediately after freeze, etc. - not consistent. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: sid is not for newbies.

2012-11-16 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 7:36 AM, Jon Dowland j...@debian.org wrote: The trouble is that testing is very variable: pretty good from freeze onwards, terrible immediately after freeze, etc. - not consistent. Neither is Sid, it does the same thing. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: sid is not for newbies.

2012-11-16 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 07:59:29AM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 7:36 AM, Jon Dowland j...@debian.org wrote: The trouble is that testing is very variable: pretty good from freeze onwards, terrible immediately after freeze, etc. - not consistent. Neither is Sid, it

sid is not for newbies. (was ... Re: The following packages will be REMOVED:)

2012-11-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 05:27:46PM -0500, Charles Kroeger wrote: On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 11:30:01 +0100 Steven Post redalert.comman...@gmail.com wrote: the non-free 3rd party packages have not been updated to work with the multiarch way of doing things. So...now we wait, is that about

Re: sid is not for newbies. (was ... Re: The following packages will be REMOVED:)

2012-11-15 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 23:30:02 +0100 Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: Please don't run Sid, if you don't understand the risk( I like risk, why else would I run it, how could I understand it if I didn't? -- CK -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: sid is not for newbies. (was ... Re: The following packages will be REMOVED:)

2012-11-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 19:51:32 -0500 Charles Kroeger ckro...@frankensteinface.com wrote: On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 23:30:02 +0100 Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: Please don't run Sid, if you don't understand the risk( I like risk, why else would I run it, how could I understand

Re: sid is not for newbies. (was ... Re: The following packages will be REMOVED:)

2012-11-15 Thread Håkon Alstadheim
On 16. nov. 2012 03:39, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 19:51:32 -0500 Charles Kroegerckro...@frankensteinface.com wrote: On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 23:30:02 +0100 Chris Bannistercbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: Please don't run Sid, if you don't understand the risk( I like risk, why