[PLUG] Should I go unstable?

[Keith Nasman]

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Carla Schroder wrote:
| On Wednesday 19 January 2005 9:36 pm, Robert Kopp wrote:
|
|>(Assuming I'm not already.) Anyhow, I'm currently
|>using Sarge. But it's not in a production environment,
|>and I'd like access to the full range of software.
|>Moreover, I have a complete backup of the Sarge
|>installation and could recover from "bare metal."
|>
|>If you go the apt-get route to upgrade to Sid, about
|>how long does it take?
|
|
| It depends on the speed of your connection. Typically it will be 300- 600
| megabytes of files.
|
| Sid works fine, the "unstable" name sounds scarier than it is. My main
| workstation is a Sid box. The only drawback is the lack of security
updates-
| there might be a few, but don't count on them.
|

Wow, 300-600Mb. Much more than I thought. I only run one Sid machine and
that is my laptop (and it's been sid for a long time). I wouldn't want
to keep up with the updates on more than one :-)

Keith
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