Linked by weildish on Fri 13th Feb 2009 04:35 UTC
What a lovely holiday to release the latest and greatest creation brought to us by yours truly, Debian. February 14th marks Debian GNU/Linux 5.0's supposed release into the wilds of the world, nearly two years after 'etch,' lenny's predecessor. The date is set nearly in stone unless something very serious goes wrong in the final days of development or if one of the needed servers for download kicks the bucket at the wrong moment. Read on for the scoop on the most prominent of features.
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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.
Unless you want to use a "rolling updates" system. Then you set the dist to "stable" or "testing" and you'll always have the latest release of "stable" or "testing".
If you don't want things to change, of course, then you use the release names (sarge, etch, lenny, etc).
Depends on how you want the system to update. My desktop uses testing, but our servers use etch, for example.
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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