On Wed, 2001-11-21 at 18:02, Jonathan Hunt wrote: > Hi, > > I am probably going to repartition my hard drive and after being a satisfied > Debian 2.2r2 user I am going to do a clean install. I was wanting the > following things in my new setup: > > GCC >= 3.0 > XFree86 >= 4.0 > Linux kernel >=2.4.0 > ReiserFS (instead of ext2 for my main partition ie I want format and > install > onto a ReiserFS so this requires a boot disk supporting ReiserFS) > Recent KDE > > I would like my system to be as stable as possible and have a clear upgrade > path in the future. > > With this is mind could someone advise me on what would be the best > version > of Debian to use. It looks suspicially like testing might be the best to be > using but how unstable is that? > > Note: I am a relatively experience linux user / programmer who wants an > easy > as possible install but doesn't mind getting his handing dirty.
Aaagh. I just composed the reply and then closed Evolution before sending or saving as a Draft. Here's the abbreviated version: Easy install: ReiserFS boot disks: http://www.digitaltux.com/ This makes installing ReiserFS on / dead easy. If you want to stay with stable Adrian Bunk has a solution for 2.4 kernels: http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/kernel-24.html Since you want the latest software you might want to consider `unstable'. Being an experienced user you'll be able to deal with problems (e.g. if you need to downgrade a package). And it's more secure than testing.* If you do upgrade remember to do it in two steps. First add testing to your sources.list and then do an apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade -u Repeat for unstable if you want to upgrade to the latest software. Regards, Adam *The lag for packages to make their way into testing from unstable is eliminated. So most security fixes will make their way into unstable faster than testing.
