BRING ON THE PAAAAAAAAAIN! ::cough::
sorry... couldn't resist. -CMP On 7/12/05, Ben Pitzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Okay, so let's get something straight. As Mike stated, Sarge is now > the Stable branch of Debian. The new Testing branch is called 'etch'. > Testing can be fairly unstable, but the closer to the end of a > development cycle it is, the more stable it will be. Stable is > static, in that it VERY rarely gets any feature upgrades, or new > software. It's frozen in time, so to speak, with the exception of bug > and security fixes. Testing, on the other hand, evolves. It gets > more and more stable over time (which is the point) until it's stable > enough for the Debian leadership to call it 'stable' and release it as > such to the public. Given that we just had a release wherein Sarge > became Debian 3.1 (Stable), the current Testing branch is fairly > unstable, comparatively speaking. I recommend that most folks use > Sarge for now, and give etch a little time to mature before they use > it. I rarely recommend that anybody use Unstable (codename Sid) > unless they're bug hunting, testing, developing, or just have a high > tolerance for pain. > > -Ben > > On 7/11/05, Brian Henning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well it looks like building from source was the solution to getting gaim > > going again. As far as running Sarge over Woody... Everyone I talked > > to when I was considering Woody said "man, you gotta run Sarge! It's > > not that bad, really, 'unstable' is sort of a misnomer..." > > > > Oh well. No biggie.. Thanks for the input, and it looks like I spawned > > a good thread anyway. :-) > > > > Cheers, > > ~Brian > > > > > > Alan Porter wrote: > > >>Seriously, should one always use dist-upgrade? > > > > > > > > > I disagree with Jason. I *always* do a dist-upgrade. > > > That way, I am updating the entire system rather than > > > a few particular files. > > > > > > But I don't claim to be an expert. I'd love to hear > > > other opinions about this. > > > > > > Alan > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > . > > > > > -- > > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > > > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > -- Cristobal M. Palmer UNC-CH SILS Student [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ils.unc.edu/~cmpalmer <http://ils.unc.edu/~cmpalmer> "Television-free since 2003" -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
