Debian or Ubuntu for a desktop box?

[Mike Garfias]

A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away I used to run debian unstable (this
is way before "testing").

Then one day I did an update (this is also before apt-get), and the next thing
I knew, I had a completely broken system.

They picked that day to roll the glibc2 packages out which completely
conflicted with everything on the box that was linked against libc5.

After that I didn't run unstable.  I have run testing for long periods of time
with no problem.  But cherry pick unstable packages if you need them.  

Maybe I'm just dating myself here...  I also haven't run a linux desktop in 4+
years.  Take what I have to say with a grain of salt :)

Anthony Boynes spoke forth with the blessed manuscript:
> I have to disagree, based on solely on my experience.  I've used
> Debian Testing for the last couple of years, and would hardly say
> that it is "buggy as all hell".  The updates have been very smooth and
> trouble free.  I've heard some horror stories about Unstable, but I've
> never tried it myself.
> 
> On 6/10/06, Kurt Granroth <plug-discuss at granroth.org> wrote:
> 
> >Finally, Ubuntu actually updates their packages in a timely manner.  The
> >only real way to be reasonably up to date with Debian is to use
> >TESTING... and that's buggy as all hell.  At least, that used to be the
> >case when I used Debian.  Dunno if they've gotten better at updating
> >UNSTABLE and STABLE.
> >
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