2 Aug
2009
2 Aug
'09
10:38 a.m.
Ken Restivo wrote:
For example, for *two years* I ran Debian Sid on my
laptop. But it
was a snapshot from May 2007 (with I think one update sometime
afterwards). So it was quite stable, even though Sid is always under
heavy construction. I solved the instability problem by never typing
"apt-get upgrade" :-)
Of course by doing this you 1) never get security upgrades, and 2)
eventually can't install software anymore, since the current versions
starts needing newer libs.
I also did something similar (ran debian stable, doing my upgrades,
though) for years, but switched back to a rolling upgrade (but not
before gigs) model. ATM I'd rather handle problems once in a while, one
at the time, and be able to work with new versions of the software I run.
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