Author: Fintan Gaughan Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu + Debian
On 24/02/07, Berni Elbourn <berni@???> wrote: > On Sat, 2007-02-24 at 10:53 +0000, Fintan Gaughan wrote:
>
> > It was Debian sarge chosed that because its.. um stable :-).
> > I could try testing .
>
> Just my experience. I came to Debian from a past in slackware and SuSE.
>
> I found to my stunned delight that Debian testing just about matches
> SuSE releases in terms of stability and versions. Another joy was that
> upgrades actually seem to work in Debian which was very very welcome.
>
> The downside is that testing moves on very quickly and there are a lot
> of updates to keep an eye on. Recently testing has got its own security
> update cycle so tracking testing has become a real option for production
> use.
>
