Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on June 12, 2005 02:19 PM
There's nothing I've seen in 3.1 Debian that I'd call new
The whole point of the Debian "Stable" release is that nearly everything in it has been tested for about 3 years. That's the only way to know it's stable. The word "stable" really means something in the Debian world. Expect never to have to re-boot a machine running Debian Stable, unless you have to replace a piece of hardware inside the case.
If you want more up-to-date stuff then you should be using the Debian "testing" distro, called Etch. This distro corresponds roughly to the level of stability that you'd get from a Redhat distro; in other words, it's actually very stable.
Or if you really want the latest features you can get the "sid" distro, which also is more stable than you might expect, corresponding roughly in stability to the typical Microsoft Windows release. Expect to have to re-boot this every week or so.
BTW I agree with you that the installer's hardware autodetect needs work.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on June 12, 2005 02:19 PMThe whole point of the Debian "Stable" release is that nearly everything in it has been tested for about 3 years. That's the only way to know it's stable. The word "stable" really means something in the Debian world. Expect never to have to re-boot a machine running Debian Stable, unless you have to replace a piece of hardware inside the case.
If you want more up-to-date stuff then you should be using the Debian "testing" distro, called Etch. This distro corresponds roughly to the level of stability that you'd get from a Redhat distro; in other words, it's actually very stable.
Or if you really want the latest features you can get the "sid" distro, which also is more stable than you might expect, corresponding roughly in stability to the typical Microsoft Windows release. Expect to have to re-boot this every week or so.
BTW I agree with you that the installer's hardware autodetect needs work.
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