I ran Etch for about 6 months before it became stable since my new box required it. I'm runing amd64.
One of the main reasons for buying a new box was, believe it or not, that my 486 had difficulty with all the over-graphiced web pages I needed to access. Now I'm finding that a lot of the sites I need use flash not just for decoration but the main content. Of course, Etch amd64 doesn't have the wrapper that allows me to use a flash player without using an i386 chroot. I'm still trying to get it to work but if I can't, I'm wondering about just moving up to Lenny. I know from Etch that testing is not stable. Things stop working for a while and then a fix comes down the pipe. In the mean time, use something else. I undertand all that. However, since this is my main box, I don't want to find that something happens to kill it requiring a reinstall or something. I'm on dialup. My daily must-haves really are mild: base system, a brower (lynx or links2), an editor, mutt, exim, fetchmail, and I like mc, and aptitude (or apt-get or even dselect or plain dpkg in a pinch), along with ppp/chat. It wouldn't bother me if anything else stopped working for a while, but if I loose the ability to dial out, loose email, then I'm in difficulty. I know that, just like mutual funds, past performance does not guarantee future performance, but what has the experience been like for non-developers over the past couple of months? Do people think that Lenny is ready for a desktop run by a knowledgeable user? Thanks, Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
