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Re: Recommendations regarding using Debian Testing

From kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Recommendations regarding using Debian Testing
Date 2016-01-07 07:10 +0100
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On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 1:04 PM, Francesco Ariis <fa-ml@ariis.it> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 11:02:20PM +0530, Himanshu Shekhar wrote:
>> I want to use Debian Testing (not Backports, as I had a bad experience), to
>> try the latest version of software available.
>> However, I am a bit confused regarding whether testing would provide the
>> same level of stability as Stable does!
>> Any recommendations.
>
> Hello Himanshu,
> there is a great faq at
>
>     http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ch-choosing
>
> I myself use stable, even thought when I used unstable (not even testing)
> on armhf, I had almost zero problems.
>

This just made my day. I wrote those faqs (at least the initial
version) a long time ago. I used to maintain it on my personal webpage
which is now defunct. I am happy that it is being cited to this day.

raju
-- 
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi | http://raju.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Blog

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Recommendations regarding using Debian Testing Himanshu Shekhar <irm2015006@iiita.ac.in> - 2016-01-05 18:40 +0100
  Re: Recommendations regarding using Debian Testing Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2016-01-05 19:10 +0100
  Re: Recommendations regarding using Debian Testing Charlie Kravetz <cjk@teamcharliesangels.com> - 2016-01-05 19:10 +0100
  Re: Recommendations regarding using Debian Testing Francesco Ariis <fa-ml@ariis.it> - 2016-01-05 19:20 +0100
    Re: Recommendations regarding using Debian Testing kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com> - 2016-01-07 07:10 +0100
      Re: Recommendations regarding using Debian Testing mudongliang <mudongliangabcd@hotmail.com> - 2016-01-07 08:40 +0100
      Re: Recommendations regarding using Debian Testing Francesco Ariis <fa-ml@ariis.it> - 2016-01-07 09:10 +0100
  Re: Recommendations regarding using Debian Testing Eike Lantzsch <zp6cge@gmx.net> - 2016-01-05 20:40 +0100
  Re: Recommendations regarding using Debian Testing Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-01-05 23:10 +0100

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