Which Debian to use?

Which Debian to use?

[cr]

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.

cr
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Re: Which Debian to use?

[Jos Lemmerling]

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


HTH


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Jos Lemmerling on Debian GNU/Linux			jos(@)lemmerling(.nl)


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Re: Which Debian to use?

[Ray Olszewski]

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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Re: Which Debian to use?

[Arthur Othieno]

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".
> 
> 
> -- 
> -------------------------------------------"Never tell me the 
> odds!"--------
> Ray Olszewski                    -- Han Solo
> Palo Alto, California, USA              ray@comarre.com
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> 
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