Michael M. wrote: > Like I said, it's the "when it's ready" attitude taken to the extreme -- > to the exclusion of providing users any kind of predictablility or > expectations of timeliness -- that I don't like.
But at the same time Debian offers the "testing" and "unstable" distros, both of which are perfectly fine for the desktop user. There's no need to cling to stable unless you're running a server that must be 100% reliable. And if you must have 100% reliability, and you must use testing for whatever reason, you can check the BTS to see which packages are holding up the transition to stable. Chances are pretty good that you don't even want any of those on your system, so you can go ahead and use testing without a single RC bug. I don't know what all these complaints are about. I had been running stable on my desktop up to January, but then I got too impatient about etch and just went ahead and installed it. It's been running hitch-free since (except for some rare, inexplicable 100%-crashes which seem to have gone away as I keep upgrading kernels). --D.
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