[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I am considering of moving to testing as well. > I want to ask a few questions before doing this: > > 1. What are the major benefits of testing?
You get software that's substantially closer to the "bleeding edge", and is newer than the last stable Debian release. In theory this includes a consistent set of software out of unstable that's been there at least a week and a half and doesn't have serious problems. > 2. What are the major problems of testing? It doesn't have a separate security update system as stable does, and security updates in unstable take time to trickle into testing. Sometimes a severely broken package makes it from unstable into testing. I think the actual infrastructure that generates testing is pretty solid by now, though it's had some issues in the past. > 3. Can I go back to woody after moving to testing? Not easily. Package downgrades aren't well supported. A couple of people have tried to go back with varying degrees of success; search the debian-user archives for their stories. > 4. Which version of KDE does testing have? The search engine on http://packages.debian.org/ seems to think that stable, testing, and unstable all have KDE 2.2. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
