On Sat, 2014-02-08 at 07:48 -0500, Tom H wrote: > On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 5:24 AM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net> > wrote: > > On Sat, 2014-02-08 at 10:02 +0000, Joe wrote: > >> > >> The risk is about having that happen without noticing. Generally, I > >> keep an eye on what sid is updating, but even this long after a > >> release, it's still tens of megabytes a day. I don't check all of them > > > > I always read all package names before updating, for each distro I use. > > For Arch in addition I should read the news on the homepage, but often I > > don't do it. > > > > Newbies are unable to evaluate what package updates could be very risky, > > so for Debian they should stay with stable and for Arch they always > > should read the news first. > > > > And they never ever should update Ubuntu :D. > > My parents upgrade their Ubuntu laptops, iPads, and iPhones the way > that most non-technical do, when they're prompted to do so. > > They don't have any problems and there's no way that they'd be > interested in checking package names - or understanding these names if > they read them.
I also had good luck with *buntus, but it's good luck, it could go wrong, I read it all the times on *buntu lists and I definitively disagree regarding to iOS upgrades for my iPad 2. I won the iPad, if I would have bought the iPad, I would be pissed off. And AFAIK it's impossible to downgrade to the last release of iOS that was stable on my iPad. -- 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/1391864045.7009.31.camel@archlinux
