On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Matthew Sackman wrote:
> Testing is here to stay, and for most desktops is used. Opinion on the
> lists is that stable is only really used for servers. Somehow I doubt
> they'll release more often. Just not their style!
Was using Woody before 'official' release on a few world-facing job-doing
machines.. it depends what the machine is for as to what you think is
appropriate and how long the version has been in 'testing'.
e.g. the box upgraded to Woody first was only handling mail, so if the
pesky kids at Debian broke it, I'd be able to fix it. The time they
banjaxed perl on the testing version didn't affect me very adversely,
because I wouldn't use a web server on anything but stable (since I'm less
likely to be as able to fix it so quickly!!)
All the boxes at work were installed with Woody (which was at that stage
in the final betas, just before release.)
My laptop has been running Sid for about four or five months, and I've
never had an issue.
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