Siri Amrit Kaur wrote:
> Eric Shubes writes:
>
>> Siri Amrit Kaur wrote:
>>
>>> I've been reading a lot of positive things about Kanotix. Has anybody
>>> on this list tried it? It's based on Knoppix, but uses straight
>>> Debian Sid packages. You upgrade from Sid, not from a mix of
>>> repositories that tends to break things. Basically, once it's
>>> installed it's pure Debian Sid. The ability to upgrade without
>>> breaking things is a big issue, and this one has that problem solved.
>>
>>
>> Or does it? Sid is the 'unstable' (vs. testing, stable) release. I
>> don't know how unstable Sid is exactly. My guess is that it wouldn't
>> be stable enough for newbies. It might be suitable for some users
>> though. It depends on the user's requirements.
>
> I'm not a Debian user, but from what I've heard, Sid is at least as
> stable as the bleeding edge packages that come standard with a Mandrake
> release. And we install Mandrake for people.
>
>
Me neither, so I don't know. Maybe Sid's stable enough. Any Debian users
(der.hans?) want to chime in here?
I think that stability is an important attribute of whatever distros we
install at IFs, especially for newbies. I don't know what's stable
(enough) and what isn't.
--
-Eric 'shubes'
"There is no such thing as the People;
it is a collectivist myth.
There are only individual citizens
with individual wills
and individual purposes."
-William E. Simon (1927-2000),
Secretary of the Treasury (1974-1977)
"A Time For Truth" (1978), pg. 237
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