On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 12:23:42AM +0100, Andrew Savory wrote:
On Tue, 22 Apr 2003, Ian Bell wrote:
Is it common to use unstable or is it only for the very brave.?
Use of unstable is pretty common - I use it on my desktop at the moment (stable on my servers). But if you're not used to Debian, it's worth working with stable for a while until you get the hang of package management and the "debian way".
I would also add that unstable works best if you have broadband, so that when stuff breaks you can download updates. While you can do this over 56k, it's rather painful.
I'd suggest stable, right now, not least because it's a brand spanking new stable. It was only released a few months ago, so new testing (sarge) is hardly different at all and (correct me if I'm wrong) unstable (sid) is rather tempestuous right now.
You can do clever stuff so that your 'core' release is stable, but you can still have some packages from other groups. Mail me and I'll send you what I use.
Cheers, Alexis