Weaver <wea...@riseup.net> wrote: > I have a spare unstable system that I was thinking of jumping up to > experimental to play with. Is experimental strictly non-gui, or is > there a recommended light desktop that can sit on top? Thanks for any > advice to this slow and ancient learner.
Experimental is no complete standalone suite like Jessie, Stretch or Sid. Experimental is an addon on top of Sid and has to be used in conjunction with it. Also you don't just install everything from Experimental, since many packages in there are incomplete or broken or left-overs from past tests or transitions. If you run Sid you can enable Experimental and cherry-pick some packages from there if you (or the DD) need to test something. I for example have to use the Nvidia drivers from Experimental, because the version in Sid is not compatible with my graphics card. But other than that there are no packages from Experimental installed. And once a working version of that package is uploaded to Sid, I won't need Experimental at all. So, conclusion: Experimental does not work the way you think it does and one cannot "jump to experimental". Grüße, Sven. -- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/jbngufqi3...@mids.svenhartge.de
