On Saturday 09 September 2006 04:54, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 01:20:35PM +0200, Jordi Carrillo wrote: > > Is Debian unstable, stable enough for a Desktop system? > > If you have to ask, the answer is definately "no".
Thanks for saying that again. I sometimes seriously wonder if the people who claim to have no breakage in unstable use their systems for anything other than a console log in. My personal experience has been that important things like printing and usb-device access (in kde) *do* break regularly in testing/unstable. If you really need to use your computer to work on, then testing/unstable is IMHO a very bad idea. The way I cover my butt to keep my system usable it that I: 1) have /home installed on a seperate partation than the system, data are safe. 2) I use partimage to make an image of my working system to a second HD regularly, every couple of months. I can restore this image from a LiveCD in less than 15 minutes if I don't have the time or motivation to figure out what went wrong with a dist-upgrade, or to search for the workaround. There is no need to install from scratch (ugh)! 3) I use pinning to keep the system primarily at testing and only run stuff from unstable or even experimental if it doesn't work in testing - but I usually limit this to the gui packages (such as libgl1-mesa-dri to get google-earth working, for k3b which was once stuck in unstable for a long time). Chris -- C. Hurschler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
