[Techtalk] Debian potato->woody upgrade?

[David Merrill]

On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 08:14:20AM -0500, Michelle Murrain wrote:
> At 01:20 AM 4/3/2002, Terri Oda wrote:
> >I've decided I'm not a "stable" sort of gal, so I'm looking to upgrade my 
> >stable debian to testing.   (I'm not terribly surprised that stable isn't 
> >recent enough for me, but I thought I'd give it a shot.)
> 
> Speaking of stable vs. testing, why has woody taken so long to become 
> stable? I though Woody was to become stable last summer? I've been running 
> woody now for quite a while.
> 
> For the most part, I think Debian does it right - but, for example, debian 
> stable is still running postgres 6.5, when it's been at 7.x for a  good 
> long while now, and that was such a major improvement. I think this is true 
> for a lot of packages, and my fear is that by the time woody becomes 
> stable, it will be out of date already.
> 
> And for folks running sid (unstable) - how is it?

I run sid on my workstation. It has broken twice in the past year, but
ordinarily it is fine. And very cutting-edge.

I run testing on my server, and it is very stable. No problems, ever.
It's a nice balance between stable (read: OLD) and unstable (read:
RISKY). People tend to forget the "testing" distribution, although it
is probably the best one for many users.

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