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.
>
> However, I choose stable plus its security updates for sites that need
> to be rock solid. The secret trick (shhh - don't tell your friends) is
> to enable Debian backports to get new kernels that have been crafted to
> work in stable. This gives you stable + kernel 2.6.18 right now. More:
>
> http://www.backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php
>
> Good luck,
>
> Berni
I am now using Debian testing,o :-)nly problem i had was monitor was
out of range.
so i booted into Knoppix , looked into knoppix settings copied the
xorg.conf settings into my debian box
Thanks everybody for your help :-)
Fintan
