On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 01:22:44PM -0000, michael wrote: > Inspired by the above and not being able to find anything recent in the > mailing lists, may I ask people's views on which flavour (is that the > correct term?) of Debian out of testing & unstable is currently > recommended for a workstation (which will be used for running scientific > codes, should not crashing for months on end, is secure from hackers and > able to handle things like Fortran & C (running with MPI), Intel compilers > (don't flame me!) and, probably, NFS mounts with other boxes in the > locality)
Woody. Sorry. Sarge has been very stable lately, but there are no guarantees and random packages will sometimes break. > I initially went for 'stable' (woody) but it was too out of date for my > Ethernet card & hard drive. I've now installed 'testing' (sarge) and have > followed recommendations in the "Securing Debian Manual". However, I've > been warned that there are no security updates for 'testing'. I also see > hints on this list that 'sarge' is about to be the new 'stable' (although > I'm unsure how & when!) from which I infer that there will soon be > security updates for 'sarge'. Therefore, I think I'm as well staying with > 'sarge' rather than moving to 'unstable' (sid), particularly in light of > the above ''sed'' problem (as an example). Nobody knows when Sarge goes stable. Speculation was December. I'd bet on March, if I were a betting man. It's all guesswork, though, even the release manager can't (and shouldn't) give a date now. I recommend Sarge over Sid, but it's based on only one person's experience with a couple of computers, so don't take it too seriously. Because it's nearly-stable, Sarge is getting security updates in a very timely fashion just now. If you go with anything but stable, do your apt-get upgrades when you're physically present, then immediately test everything critical in case you have to revert. -- 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]
