Jay Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >What Version on of Debian should I be using. Is there a big difference from >Slink to Potato to Frozen? Any seuggestion would be great
First off, potato is the same as frozen ... The distributions are: slink = stable = 2.1 potato = frozen = future 2.2 woody = unstable = future 2.3 Now, the stable/frozen/unstable names are intended to suggest how often they change more than how buggy they are. If you want a solidly tested distribution, slink is the one to go for, but it's rather old now. potato is more current and is *almost* ready for release; if you don't know which you should be using then you probably ought not to be trying woody just yet. There are a massive number of improvements from slink to potato: apart from anything else, there's something like twice the number of packages in potato, and as far as I can tell the quality's only improving. Generally speaking I think I'd now recommend that most people start using potato, though it does depend on what you need. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
