On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 11:50:11AM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. uttered: [ ...] discussion on why I chose Sid on a workstation/laptop. > I used Etch on my desktop and Laptop for quite a while with little to no loss > of functionality. I don't really understand why you think you need the > latest > release. I want well-tested software so I can use it instead of fix it or > wait until it gets fixed. I also want stable software so I'm not having to > relearn a UI every week or so.
Because some of us have new hardware and stable doesn't work so well with and/or has antique versions of software. On a desktop/laptop I want the latest as I use the latest hardware. With Chromium there is no "stable" or "beta" it's a development branch. So being the development branch, Debian should be in sync with upstream, IMHO. Google-Chrome is the only version that has stable/beta/developer versions. > Now, I currently run a mixed system on both my desktop and laptop. It > includes packages from Lenny, testing, and Sid. I originally did this to be > able to use KDE SC 4.2. I am hoping that I can switch back to using stable > Debian for both the desktop and laptop once Squeeze is released. > > I also use Debian on a number of servers. I enable a mixed system there as > well, but I have yet to need to pull any packages from testing or Sid. Good for you. I use stable on my company's servers because there is no need for the latest/greatest, stability is more desired as is uptime. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100526115010.gc2...@google.com
