I've been using sid for over a year now and have encountered very few serious problems. Sometimes dependencies will get out of sync and a package will be unusable for a day or two, but this doesn't happen very often. If you read the debian-user mailing list right before doing an upgrade, you may find out about broken packages and can place them on hold so that they don't get upgraded to a broken state. One advantage that sid has over woody is that if something breaks, a fix can be available the next day whereas if a problem sneaks into woody, I believe you have to wait for two weeks for the fix to become available.
In general, sid doesn't break as much as the name 'unstable' implies. I really think they should rename it to 'untested' because 'unstable' scares a lot of people away from using it. I can only remember two times when I had serious problems: once when openssl and openssh got out of sync (fix available the next day I believe) and once when a minor typo in libpam made it impossible to login (a fix was available from incoming.debian.org within minutes of the faulty package being released). Hope this info helps. Matt On Thu, 2001-09-27 at 12:53, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > hi all, > > i'm thinking of trying out sid. i'm wondering how often things "break". > > does anyone use sid here? any comments on what to expect? > > pete > -- ********************************** * Matt Roper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * * http://www.mattrope.com * **********************************
