input needed on Debian

[David A. Bandel]

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On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 00:01:34 -0800
Collins <erichey2 at comcast.net> wrote:

> On Friday 19 December 2003 21:35, Gary wrote:
> > I spent a lot of time with RH, and switched back to SUSE about 8
> > months ago, It is fine, excellent distro. I was thinking about
> > moving some personal desktops, and maybe a mail/dns server or two
> > over to Debian. Don't want Fedora as an offering, not a test bed for
> > RH's enterprise, for me, plus poor life cycle. So, I was thinking
> > about Debian..
> >
> > Woody is the stable version, Sarge their testing v.. It seems to me
> > that one of the disadvantages of Debian is that Woody uses older
> > versions of programs. If I use the newer Sarge, from what I
> > understand, Deb does not support security updates on Sarge, only
> > Woody... Is this true?
> >
> > Any input / thoughts appreciated.
> 
> A really simple way to get started with debian is to get a Knoppix
> cdrom and install to disk - badda-bim you're done and ready to learn
> about updating debian.
> 

Not quite.

There's stable (Woody), testing (Sarge), unstable (Sid).

There are security updates for stable and testing, but none for
unstable.

I run stable and testing and never had a problem.  I have a test box
where I occasionally update unstable and believe me, it's definitely
earned the name. Unless you're a masochist, don't put unstable on a
system (at least not one you want to be able to use).

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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