Linked by Charles Williams on Mon 7th Apr 2003 03:17 UTC
We have all heard the horror stories of how GNU/Linux is difficult, if not almost impossible, as far as general desktop usability is concerned. In particular, there seems to be a continuous stream of gripes printed across the Internet, from Microsoft Windows users who wish, or have tried, to migrate to GNU/Linux, yet gave up in frustration. But what happens when complete computer newbies are introduced to GNU/Linux? By computer newbies, I am referring to those who have no computer experience whatsoever, in either a Windows, Mac, Linux, Unix or other environment.
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Why are you installing *unstable* on a production machine? Remember the libpam problems in unstable not too long ago? Or the gcc-3.2 transition where dist-upgrade would remove about every single package on your computer?
Use stable for production machines, with *maybe* some packages from testing, If you come crying to www.debianhelp.org to help you recover your installation, there will be a lot of people laughing at you.
(PS: I run unstable, with a daily upgrade, and about 1-4 (varies) times a month I have to do some magic to get my box running the way I want it to (most recently the new gnome packages caused me some headaches)).