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That also means that Sid (Unstable) is "free" again. I mean, even if Sid is never gonna be released, every manpower is busy working on making Lenny as stable as possible.
So Sid does not get big changes when a distro which is in testing gets frozen. Hence I suppose Sid does not differ very much from Lenny at the moment.
But very soon it will get KDE 4.2 which is in Experimental and works very well (I'm already using it), and other packages.

And I have to do the opposite.. edit sources.list to change Testing to Lenny so I don't get the new one. Not sure I'm ready for my KDE3 to go away yet At least I should have a year+ to stick with it in stable.

Conversely, anyone who wants to go to 4 will have to move to Testing. I remember being a little intimidated doing that from Woody, but Sarge took so long it was a necessity. Woody was a software museum by the end.

So now I'm pretty cool with testing. I like getting the new stuff. Testing turning into the new Stable has been a fun time since then, as new stuff starts rolling into testing again as freezes end. And now I'm seeing the other side of the coin, why stable could be nice for a little longer.

I guess that's the path to take. Stick with Lenny for a while longer until I can't stand it, or until I'm comfortable with KDE4 on my main desktop (reason of the week I am not yet: a couple hours into a dd hard drive clone, plasma crashes and restarts itself and greets me with crash dialogs for every app that was running, like konsole with my dd. My bad of course, should have done it from a tty, but if I can't do important stuff in KDE4, why am I doing anything?) And so I'll be that conservative guy that uses Stable for a while. This is what it's for

Guys, this is why you always, always reference your release by *name*. When lenny rolls in I will have to do nothing because my etch boxes point to etch, not stable. Doing anything else is madness.

You don't need to switch to a tty. You can use screen instead of course.