On 23 May 2000, Colin Watson wrote: > 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] >
Those of us who don't have toll-free telephone facilities don't have much of a choice; we have to wait until potato becomes stable and we can get CDs of it. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.1 (Windows-free zone) Book Reviews: http://www.pentelikon.freeserve.co.uk/bookreviews/ Skeptical articles: http://www.freethinker/uklinux.net/ "To be forced by desire into any unwarrantable belief is a calamity." I.A. Richards
