On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 04:37:12PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 02:35:32PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > > > > Yes, unstable does indeed break sometimes, sometimes seriously so. But > > in the five or so years I've been running Debian, I've seen far less > > breakage on Debian unstable boxes than on Windows boxes (and much, much, > > much more recoverability). So if you've been able to live with Windows > > for the past few years, you can probably handle Debian unstable. > > Sure, but the apropos comparison is against SuSE or Mandrake or > something, not Windows. At least IMO. >
Don't know whats their state now after they all adopted the apt methodology, but it used to be near to impossible to upgrade those systems. I used to run mandrake at work about two years ago and it took me less then a month to break it in a way that needed resinstalling. My previous computer running debian unstable ran fine for over six years with constant upgrades (until I stopped using it and it moved to my girlfriend who can't get used to linux). Actually it was an installation that migrated between two computers and three different hard-drives (went from 486 to PIII with no problem), not to mention the exotic hardware it ran along the years. > Mind you, tracking Testing for the past two years I've had one > significant problem (the KDE thing) which was only a difficulty at > all in that I couldn't use Konqueror for a few weeks. > -- > Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading > http://www.jabootu.com > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System > at the Tel-Aviv University CC. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
