-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jeff,
I've been running Sid on my desktop machines since..., well, 2000 I guess. I've not gotten into a "cannot boot" situation, but there have been two times that X wouldn't start. The Xorg transition was Interesting Times" indeed. Sid's USB has recently stopped recognizing my camera, too. I had to go use a system I built in September for my Mom in order to get the pictures (because I'd rather do that than run Windows!). Unstable is _unstable_, be ready to be surprised. I'll echo Vikki's comment that any production server I run runs stable. I do have a "server" right now that I use for video transcoding that runs Sid too, but no one else uses it. I don't consider it "production". I wouldn't run testing at all. Testing was the first one I tried, thinking that it sounded good, but there is no imperative to fix problems in testing. With Sid, if I see something that doesn't look right, I just don't upgrade for a few days to let it settle down (if it ever does settle down). Each time a Stable is released, Testing goes into complete chaos. Not something I ever want to experience again. That 2000-2007 stretch has not been without rebuilds, either, and two different primary laptops. There are going to be times, maybe years apart, when things get completely confused. Sid may be upgraded more often, but it also builds up cruft faster. A learning experience it has been, no doubt about that! I'd say run unstable on something both interactive and _yours_. Stable on any system that has to work today and tomorrow. Curt- - -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBRzRhnS9Y35yItIgBAQJ70wf8CK6Ns7WLqXn/hIcSlFFdIIj3K160sY3b NNEgacMyj2pU5ghrN8oiZ0TdbCrF1bh5Hn1KliiWsEsXEJxxYdundjlOSqQ5QY7m W1TNFRvhSGpCHgiqrEuR+HjXEx5rkYPKg5SflZCZtU10mUqVsjL5x4tRHJsu8jbZ WjuXaaTLBnkR13Dk6d3kE10SOPNgInbOlPNWRJEFrmQ/jJWGN2z9Q1rFXUts4eLg P4dnmUnGIMJ1C7nVDdWFICI/Hupnls2xGASw5qxmsbUxSdV390eWeag7wZAVtCYq uNsbPpNSzujVn07cLPL4zJAee3+oWx7Kq65amsjyNrnSBLw0Enhkaw== =R+LK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
