On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 08:20:15 -0500 Richard Kleeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Russell Davie wrote: > > > > > Not yet. Ubuntu does have various levels, but it means to upgrade to > > something like Deb-unstable and comes with all the cutting edge flakiness > > as a bonus! No thanks, I sort out how to do a proper package soon. > > > > Russell > > > > > Well I am using edgy and I see little "flakiness". It is actually more > stable in my experience than LTS Dapper. I suspect two trends occur with > Ubuntu: > > 1) The short release cycle (6 months) means that some bugs are not > properly sorted out. > > 2) On the other hand all linux apps are overall slowly getting more > mature and stable so if you use the latest distro you use (in principle) > somewhat more stable software. Of course when major new features are > added to an app this argument is not valid anymore. Maybe, I upgraded too quickly last yr and went from Ubuntu Breezy to Dapper before it was "official". OMG, was this a mistake. I now know I should have installed it via a chroot, and tested it out. But anyway, I learnt the hard way and broke a production machine. It might be a little too conservative not to upgrade to most shiniest version, but I retain my sanity, or some thing that looks like it. ;-)
