On Mi, 14 nov 12, 10:48:10, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > > My opinion is that Debian offer a very nice of doing things for > releases: > _ one stable release, like the one you can find in proprietary > software world, with a consequence of stability, ease of use, and > you know that there will be no features added or removed which > mess-up your system. Except if you install it, of course. > _ a testing rolling release, reliable enough for simple users in my > opinion. You will have more recent stuff, which means you can see > features appear or disappear, but it will not (at least, I have not > seen that) have broken dependencies.
I don't agree here. Some situations that are non-issues for you (experienced unstable user) can be show stoppers for unexperienced users. I would not recommend testing to persons without experience with apt/itude. > _ an unstable rolling release, for people who do not mind broken > dependencies and/or softwares. It does not happen very often, > though, because there is also the experimental "area" where things > are tried before. But experimental is not usable alone, unlike > unstable or testing. (not snipped to preserve context) Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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