On Thu, Oct 26, 2000, Gerald Oskoboiny wrote:
> I have been using Debian at home for the last couple months [1]
> and have been pretty happy with it, although I wish I had gone
> with the stable distribution instead of unstable. (my current
> installation is kind of messed up, although that doesn't prevent
> me from getting my work done, in typical linux style.)

I had been using the Debian unstable distribution for a long time,
basically since I started to use Debian in 1996.

Most of the time, the unstable distribution is pretty stable, especially
if you have some time to read about the potential problems in the Debian
mailing lists[2] and to repair what is broken. Moreover, it has become
very reliable for the package upgrades so I was feeling pretty
confident.

However, the woody version is switching to a new libc, soon XFree86 4.0
will be appearing, and I have less and less time to play around with it,
so that's why I decided to go back to good old potato[3].

And since I don't have time to follow what's going on and don't have a
machine with woody installed to develop on anymore, I finally offered my
two last Debian packages[4,5] for adoption yesterday.

> [1] http://impressive.net/archives/fogo/[email protected]
2. http://lists.debian.org/
3. http://impressive.net/archives/fogo/[email protected]
4. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=75591
5. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=75592

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