(Take this to cygwin-talk please.) "DePriest, Jason R." wrote:
> If you do use > Debian, please don't use the 'stable' release. It is very ancient (but > stable!). Use the 'testing' release. For the most part, you won't have > any problems and if you do have a problem, expect it to be fixed > quickly. That's a very slippery slope and disagrees sharply from the official Debian line. You are strongly urged to NOT use "testing" in a production environment. Why? Because criticial security bug fixes are only guaranteed for "stable". They occur for testing and unstable of course, but at a relaxed pace. I think that you do a disservice by automatically stating that one should ignore "stable". At the very least point them to <http://www.debian.org/releases/> so that they can decide for themselves. It is entirely possible to run the stable branch without ancient versions of everything: <http://backports.org/> Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
