i've been using potato since late january and have been doing apt-get dist-upgrade at least once a month. potato has been very very good to me. if not for power outages and the 'init 6' i'm prone to do, i don't need to reboot my system.
On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 10:18:16AM +0200, Dietmar wrote: > Joey Hess wrote: > > > [ This is not an official announcement of the Debian project, just a > > Debian developer speaking up with his personal opinion. ] > > > > Debian is now well into its second test cycle for the "potato" (2.2) > > release of Debian. Now is an excellent time to help us test the > > distribution. Frozen is quite stable now; we are only making small > > changes to it every 2 weeks or so, mainly security fixes. As such, it is > > now almost as stable as stable. > > > > And of course, it is much more up-to-date, with many enhancements, > > additions, and bugfixes. At this point, in my opinion, there is no reason > > to use Debian stable except for absolutely mission critical applications. > > For exerything else, frozen is a great choice. (Put stable on your mars > > lander; use frozen in mission control ;-). > > > > So I'm writing to encourage people to upgrade to frozen, and if you can, > > do new installs with frozen. Every report we receive of another clean > > upgrade/install makes us that much more likely to release soon. So if > > you upgrade or install frozen, post a report to the mailing list > > <debian-testing@lists.debian.org>. Describe how you upgraded or installed. > > If everything went perfectly, say so; If there were some problems, do your > > best to describe them, and any relevant information about your system. > > > > Release notes for potato are here: > > http://www.debian.org/releases/potato/ > > > > For fresh installs, an install guide is here: > > http://www.debian.org/releases/potato/i386/install > > > > For upgrades: > > http://www.debian.org/releases/potato/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html > > > > CD images are here: > > http://cdimage.debian.org/potato_pre.html > > > > Thanks! > > > > -- > > see shy jo > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > Yes, but where should we report our experiences. > 2 weeks ago I installed potato on my box from scratch: I the boot images and > the base > system through ftp and continued with apt-get. As far as I remember there > were only > one severe problem. The loopback-device was not configured from start. So it > took me > some time to figure out why half of my net-related software would not work > and where > net-devices are generally configured in potato. For the rest potato is great. > > mfg, > Dietmar > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
