input needed on Debian

[Dallam Wych]

On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 12:29:36PM -0500, Leon Goldstein wrote:
> David Bandel wrote:

> >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).

I also run woody and sarge boxes, and though I don't feel that I
have any masochistic tendencies I also run several sid boxes as
well. My personal experience is that I have had much more trouble
out of the sarge boxes than the sid boxes. But, YMMV.

> David: I'd like to post your above statement on the Libranet user's forum.
> (Quoted, with attribution, of course.)
> There are too many posts from people who installed Libranent, then 
> update to unstable
> without bothering to check what is going to happen.

Please feel free to post it to debian-users as well.

> Libranet is fast and easy to install, so there is little excuse for not
> installing a "lab rat" install and testing unstable updates on it before
> going to town on the installation that earns its keep.

I have read your praise of libranet in several of your last posts,
and it got me curious enough to get ahold of the 2.7 release and
install it on a spare dell p2 machine.
Actually, I didn't see anything that remarkable about it. The
install was over simplified, much more so than to my liking and at
the end of the day one can always download some nice backports from
backport.org or dist upgrade to a combination of woody/sarge. I
never found the woody install that difficult though for all the
complaints there are from newbies about it.
I also had a go with slack 9.1 this past week, and found it up to
its usual excellent standards. FreeBSD 5.1 is going on one of the
boxes here this week sometime, is anyone currently using it?
comments?

> Powered by Libranet 2.8 Debian Linux

Isn't that Debian GNU/Linux?

Kind Regards,
Dallam

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