On Sat, 2001-11-17 at 21:30, Geoff Beaumont wrote: > On Sat, 2001-11-17 at 13:52, ben wrote: > > > > > I've run both Sid and Woody systems, and find that the latter is > > > actually slightly more problematic. OTOH, we haven't had a "wipe your > > > data" class of error for quite some time, and your chances of exposure > > > to this on Sid are far higher than Woody. > > > > what's the most drastic level of disfunction i could expect with woody? i'm > > just trying to guage the amount of free time i have against that required > > to > > enable a certain degree of functionality. > > I run Woody on my desktop machine and have almost no trouble with it - > there's been the occasional broken package which I've had to roll back > after doing an apt-get dist-upgrade, but nothing that took more than a > few minutes to figure out and fix (I'm not a Debian guru). Even this > doesn't happen often - on average perhaps once every couple of months, > purely from personal experience. > > I might hesitate to use it on a server without good reason, but on a > Desktop the far more up-to-date packages make it well worth it.
I run Woody both on a server and on 2 desktops without any real problems. Rule of thumb when dselect gives you a list of dependency problems: just don t upgrade at that moment it will be fixed in the week. All problems we saw with woody the last few monthes were X related which is of no concern at all for the server which doesn t even have a screen attached to it. For the desktops it took some time to resolve the installation problems but with the help of this list it took only some hours. Michel
