RE: Unstable 'sid' release

2003-04-05 Thread Matthew Healy
Greetings again, One other suggestion for you Pavel, if you are concerned with the stability of Sid/Unstable but there are requirements for new X-Windows components, etc you could try looking at the Xandros Desktop distribution of Linux. It is entirely Debian based but you are looking at forking o

RE: Unstable 'sid' release

2003-04-05 Thread Matthew Healy
ing again. Matt Enjoy! -Original Message- From: Christian Lyra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 6 April 2003 1:09 AM To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Unstable 'sid' release Hi, I have been using SID for some time (almost 2 years) on a compaq 12

RE: Unstable 'sid' release

2003-04-05 Thread Matthew Healy
Greetings again, One other suggestion for you Pavel, if you are concerned with the stability of Sid/Unstable but there are requirements for new X-Windows components, etc you could try looking at the Xandros Desktop distribution of Linux. It is entirely Debian based but you are looking at forking o

RE: Unstable 'sid' release

2003-04-05 Thread Matthew Healy
ing again. Matt Enjoy! -Original Message- From: Christian Lyra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 6 April 2003 1:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Unstable 'sid' release Hi, I have been using SID for some time (almost 2 years) on a compaq 1200 notebook. It&

Re: Unstable 'sid' release

2003-04-05 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > It *isn't* stable. That's why it's called "unstable". Sid is the "use at > your own risk" branch of Debian. > note that "unstable" has a similar meaning as it does in chemistry or physics. The item in question is changing, rearranging. This means you may get bitten by package upgrades the

Re: Unstable 'sid' release

2003-04-05 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sat, 05 Apr 2003 08:35:18 +0200 Pavel Tavoda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is't here somebody using sid? > > Can be 'sid' used by experienced user for everyday work on notebook? > > Or better question: "How stable is unstable 'sid' release"? It *isn't* stable. That's why it's called "unstable

Re: Unstable 'sid' release

2003-04-05 Thread Christian Lyra
Hi, I have been using SID for some time (almost 2 years) on a compaq 1200 notebook. It's nice to have the last version of packages, but I got in trouble a few times. For example, I did a upgrade yesterday, and found that the libxft2 seems to be broken, so my kdm is unusable and everything

Re: Unstable 'sid' release

2003-04-05 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > It *isn't* stable. That's why it's called "unstable". Sid is the "use at > your own risk" branch of Debian. > note that "unstable" has a similar meaning as it does in chemistry or physics. The item in question is changing, rearranging. This means you may get bitten by package upgrades the

Re: Unstable 'sid' release

2003-04-05 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sat, 05 Apr 2003 08:35:18 +0200 Pavel Tavoda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is't here somebody using sid? > > Can be 'sid' used by experienced user for everyday work on notebook? > > Or better question: "How stable is unstable 'sid' release"? It *isn't* stable. That's why it's called "unstable

Re: Unstable 'sid' release

2003-04-05 Thread Christian Lyra
Hi, I have been using SID for some time (almost 2 years) on a compaq 1200 notebook. It's nice to have the last version of packages, but I got in trouble a few times. For example, I did a upgrade yesterday, and found that the libxft2 seems to be broken, so my kdm is unusable and everything

Re: Unstable 'sid' release

2003-04-05 Thread Blars Blarson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Is't here somebody using sid? > >Can be 'sid' used by experienced user for everyday work on notebook? > >Or better question: "How stable is unstable 'sid' release"? I'm running sid on a Dell Inspiron 8200. The xfree86 4.2 nv driver works o

Re: Unstable 'sid' release

2003-04-05 Thread Blars Blarson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Is't here somebody using sid? > >Can be 'sid' used by experienced user for everyday work on notebook? > >Or better question: "How stable is unstable 'sid' release"? I'm running sid on a Dell Inspiron 8200. The xfree86 4.2 nv driver works o

Re: Unstable 'sid' release

2003-04-05 Thread Steffen Elste
Hi, got 'unstable' running on a Dell Inspiron 8200 for quite a while ... and am perfectly happy with it! Transition from Karolina's KDE packages to the 'official' ones wasn't really smooth but manageable, apart from that no complaints. The notebook at work (Fujitsu Siemens E7010) causes a bit of

Re: Unstable 'sid' release

2003-04-05 Thread KryptoBSD
Pavel, I have been using SID on my Sony VAIO GRZ-660 for about 2 or so months now. I can't recall an actual problem with it thus far, and that is through a large amount of usage and also many different software applications. I personally would not venture back to `stable` for the reason that th

Re: Unstable 'sid' release

2003-04-05 Thread Michael Perry
On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 08:35:18AM +0200, Pavel Tavoda wrote: > Is't here somebody using sid? > > Can be 'sid' used by experienced user for everyday work on notebook? > > Or better question: "How stable is unstable 'sid' release"? > > Pavel > > Hi Pavel- I use sid on a daily basis here on a d

Re: Unstable 'sid' release

2003-04-05 Thread Steffen Elste
Hi, got 'unstable' running on a Dell Inspiron 8200 for quite a while ... and am perfectly happy with it! Transition from Karolina's KDE packages to the 'official' ones wasn't really smooth but manageable, apart from that no complaints. The notebook at work (Fujitsu Siemens E7010) causes a bit of

Re: Unstable 'sid' release

2003-04-04 Thread KryptoBSD
Pavel, I have been using SID on my Sony VAIO GRZ-660 for about 2 or so months now. I can't recall an actual problem with it thus far, and that is through a large amount of usage and also many different software applications. I personally would not venture back to `stable` for the reason that th

Re: Unstable 'sid' release

2003-04-04 Thread Michael Perry
On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 08:35:18AM +0200, Pavel Tavoda wrote: > Is't here somebody using sid? > > Can be 'sid' used by experienced user for everyday work on notebook? > > Or better question: "How stable is unstable 'sid' release"? > > Pavel > > Hi Pavel- I use sid on a daily basis here on a d