Derek Neighbors wrote: > Running Knoppix as a production scares the hell out of me. I would
> suggest changing to all Unstable sources lines and then doing and
> dist-upgrade, but that is just me. ... > P.S. IMHO installing Knoppix is a bad idea, it was designed to be a demo
> distribution not a production hard disk install. I strongly suggest
> installing Woody if you like Debian and let backports.org become your
> friend. That or run Sid and install apt-listchanges and apt-listbugs.
I would sadly have to agree with you (almost) on both counts Derek. I do have a
production server running on a Knoppix HD install and it has made me a bit
nervous and I will most definately be avoiding that in the future ... I haven't
had any problems per se, but after working with it for a while I have realized
what a slippery slope it is. All of my external services are downgraded to
stable (you hate this mixed environment right?) and only security is in the
sources.list.
When I find a convenient way to get unstable on a workstation then I might use
that rather than Knoppix. But a Knoppix -> Unstable is the quickest way to
unstable I have found, and it really ends up being pretty decent. The
Knoppixness quickly disappears (there may be a few packages left over eventually
which you can carefully extricate).
I look forward to Debian's installer improvements.
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