On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 22:19 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: <snip> > > 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?
I can't speak to whether Lenny amd64 will solve your flash-related issues, but Lenny itself is perfectly comfortable. If anything, personally I've been getting a bit frustrated again with the pace of change in Lenny. My purely unscientific, based-on-nothing-more-that-feeling opinion is that Lenny so far is lagging compared to the pace of change in Etch when Etch was the current testing. I've been debating switching to Sid, but I hesitate to take that road since it's difficult (if not impossible; at least, unsupported) to backtrack. Or maybe switching to Ubuntu or trying another distro or FreeBSD. There was a burst of activity over the past few weeks in Lenny upgrades, none of which caused me any problems whatsoever. But it still seems behind where I thought it would be by now. OTOH, if you're worried about instability in Lenny, so far x86 has been rock-solid. -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA "No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream." --S. Jackson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
