Re: What Linux edition we should chose?

On Tuesday 01 June 2010 03.08:06 Clemens Schwaighofer wrote:
> Besides the fact that new versions come in quite fast (after the wait
> phase from unstable to testing)

... and you can always mix testing and unstable.  If your testing
installation is not too old, usually not much fiddling with dependencies is
involved.  Reading the apt_preferences manual page and some other Debian
documentation to understand how packages are moved between
experimental/unstable/testing is strongly recommended, though.

I'd hesitate to use unstable for a production machine, though.  Even testing
is not always a good idea, since security support for testing is not quite
as good as for stable.

(shameless plug, since we're speaking of Debian ...:
<http://blog.fortytwo.ch/archives/84-Order-Your-Debian-Swirl-Umbrella-Now.html>)

cheers
-- vbi

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