____________________________________________________________________________ Mike MacCana Consultant RHCE, MCSE, MCP+I Cybersource: Providing Quality IT Professional Services for 11 Years Specialists in Unix/Linux, TCP/IP and Web Application Development Level 4, 10 Queen St, Melbourne. Ph : 03 9621 2377 Fax: 03 9621 2477
On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Andre Pang wrote: > On Friday, February 21, 2003, at 06:33 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > > > On 21 Feb 2003 11:47:52 +1100 > > Jean-Francois Dive <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> I think this is always the same story... Debian moves slower than any > >> other distribution in most of the packages it offers. > > > > Debian testing does not move slower than other distros, it moves > > significantly > > faster. > > While this is true (arguably so for unstable, possibly so for testing), > I find it bad that this isn't the general perception of Debian. Almost > all the Debian users I know track the packages in testing rather than > stable, and one of the great advantages of Debian is that it is > actually possible to track testing and pretty much guarantee a stable > system. I don't consider testing to be stable by a longshot. In the last Sarge netinst I did a couple of weeks ago, the installer failed to use the correct name for the network card driver, and failed creating an ext3 filesystem on the hard disk. Switching VTs to a command line and running the commands necessary to do that fixed things, but its little things like that that seem to dissuade me from running Debian at home. Mike -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
