Re: [Lilux-help] Inventory as of 01/07/2004

Hi, On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, Serge Marelli wrote: Yup. And unstable is Sid. http://www.debian.org/releases/ ... which could be debatable. Some say a Debian unstable is more stable than many other distribution's release version. I've had trouble myself with unstable, which is why I'm staying away from it. I do use stable on a number of production machines, except for those few running RedHat - which only run RedHat as they are used for commercial software only certified for that platform. I wouldn't like stable on the desktop though, as the packages are relatively old - that's why I use testing there - it's very recent stuff, sufficiently stable, and the world won't die if the desktop system goes down the drain in the unlikely event that some serious bug remains (and it won't, at least if you don't start mixing in too many strange apt sources). As an addition to this discussion: SlashDot has an article on a comparison between the "three big distros": <http://slashdot.org/articles/04/07/05/2347210.shtml?tid=106&tid=117&tid=185&tid=190&tid=99> I didn't read it all, but maybe those who started the thread will... Greets, Eric