[oclug] Debian updating (Was: Good Point)

[Michael P. Soulier]

On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 01:07:32AM -0500, Jon Earle wrote:
> But, unstable is where all the good stuff is!  :)  It seems the stable
> branch, while perhaps being more well tested, lags behind the current
> release of many applications.  How else would one get the latest and
> greatest without using the unstable branch?

    I personally grab apps out of unstable as I need them. Hence, both my home
and work boxes are somewhere between 2.2 and 2.3. A friend at work runs
unstable though. He also had the fun of fixing his system when a bad Perl
package was put in the unstable tree. They fixed it right away, but it's hard
to pick up the fix when _all_ of Debian's packaging utilities are written in
Perl. ;-)

    unstable is definitely "at your own risk". The difference between Debian
and other distros, IMHO, is that what Debian calls unstable, RedHat calls 7.0.
:)

    Mike

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