Re: Which Debian to use?

[Arthur Othieno <arthurothieno@gmx.net>]

As Jos and Ray have already given some very good recommendations, maybe 
I can add that, if, what you have settled for does not work for you, you 
can always "mix and match" branches - for example I run a mixed 
testing/unstable system, so if for some reason I need the latest version 
of a particular software, it's just a few key strokes away ;)

More can be gleaned from 
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-apt-get.en.html#s-default-version

HTH,

Arthur

Ray Olszewski wrote:
> At 03:39 PM 2/9/03 +0100, Jos Lemmerling wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, cr wrote:
>>
>> > The time has come for an upgrade (oh, okay, a reinstall) and I think
>> > Debian sounds promising   (I'm currently on RH7.2).
>> >
>> > I'm sure there are Debian users on this list, which version would you
>> > recommend?   I want something reasonably up-to-date (doesn't need to 
>> be the
>> > very latest) but solid and reliable and preferably easy to handle.
>> > Also one that will work well with Gnome and KDE apps.
>>
>> I'd recommend the latest stable release; 3.0r1 (Woody). It works fine 
>> with
>> the gnome and kde-proggies I run, is very solid and easy to handle.
>>
>> More info on this release:
>> http://www.debian.org/News/2002/20020719
> 
> 
> 
> Jos is probably right in his recommendation (especially as advice for a 
> beginner), but I want to add a note of caution: Woody does pay a price 
> for being "stable" in that (a) many newer apps are completely missing 
> from it and (b) the apps present are often well back of the latest 
> versions.
> 
> Here, I use Woody (stable) on servers that need to run reliably 24/7 and 
> that do not offer "bleeding edge" services. But the development work I 
> do involves applications for processing of video, and that area is 
> changing far too rapidly for use of Woody to work ... so my workstations 
> all use Sid (unstable), and I occasionally pay the price that some app 
> stops running after an update, while the Debian maintainers sort out 
> compatibility issues.
> 
> In the end, you need to look at the details to move from the vague 
> notion of "something reasonably up-to-date" to a more precise one of 
> "able to do the tasks I need to do".
> 
> 
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