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On Sat, 12 May 2007 18:56:15 +0100 "Ben Goodger" <goodgerster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > You will find it very difficult to downgrade to Etch (Stable), so you will > need to get a new ISO for Etch. ? Why ? It would be very difficult to downgrade to Sarge or Woody but Etch is v.recent - not enough changes have been made to make the downgrade difficult (IMHO it isn't worth doing because so few packages would be affected). Closer to the release of Lenny then, yes, I would agree. > Really though, Stable is only for servers and people who really need > absolute stability - Testing is usually more stable than Ubuntu. You also > get frequent incremental upgrades using Testing, as opposed to upgrading the > whole distro at once. Agreed. Most Debian desktops are running either testing or unstable. After all, Debian is known for slow release cycles - do you REALLY want to wait that long for the next release of Gnome or KDE? Packages don't enter testing unless they are without serious bugs after their time in unstable. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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