matt, yes, the info did help. i'll convert my new system to sid this weekend. thanks for sharing this info! :-)
pete > 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
