The problem with Debian is the increasing staleness of the applications in 
stable over the years. At the moment, it is OK to track stable. In a year or 
two, you will find yourself tracking testing. 

On Friday 23 August 2002 15:39, der.hans wrote:
> Am 23. Aug, 2002 schwätzte bob smith so:
> > I was just curious as to what branch those who use
> > debian are currently tracking. From reading polls and
> > other articles it seems that most people use sid (for
> > dekstop purposes not server use). I've heard some
> > horror stories though of people not being able to boot
> > after something going horribly wrong while tracking
> > sid. Thoughts?
>
> Don't track sid/unstable unless you're developing or wanting to help find
> bugs.
>
> For someone adminning their own desktop I would suggest tracking testing.
>
> For everything else track stable unless you need to get something out of
> testing. If it's only one or two things track stable and snag those things
> out of testing. If it's a bunch of stuff track testing.
>
> I'm currently tracking stable on all of my boxen. At some point I'll start
> tracking testing on one or two boxen. If I start getting involved with
> debian development I will track sid on at least one box.
>
> Use /etc/apt/preferences to make intermixing easy.
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans