Re: [LUG] How unstable is the Sid branch of Debian?

[Simon Waters <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Grant Sewell wrote:
|
| but I
| am also not the kind of person that is happy sacrificing
| usability for the sake of stability.

We can do you stable usable free software if you don't want to plug
into a proprietary mail server :)

| I heard that Sid/unstable
| was basically the CVS branch of all the Debian packages...

Nope, that is "Experimental", but no one talks about that.

| in
| which case, what is the likelihood of running a usable desktop
| system with Sid?

Mosts days it is fine, one day when you need the desktop to work it
will be broken after you "apt-get upgrade".

The Debian Reference explains how to "pin" packages from other
releases, which is how I would approach this requirement if it were
me, unless they let me replace Exchange of course.

For a work desktop you usually want "Stable", as you want security
patches and the like (today I've lost track of which releases have
security patches as the security team were supporting testing as
part of preparing the next release). Not much point deploying Debian
desktops if they aren't more reliable than the alternatives.

Evolution looks very impressive these days.
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