Siri Amrit Kaur wrote:
> Eric Shubes writes:
> 
>> Siri Amrit Kaur wrote:
>>
>>> I've been reading a lot of positive things about Kanotix. Has anybody 
>>> on this list tried it? It's based on Knoppix, but uses straight 
>>> Debian Sid packages. You upgrade from Sid, not from a mix of 
>>> repositories that tends to break things. Basically, once it's 
>>> installed it's pure Debian Sid. The ability to upgrade without 
>>> breaking things is a big issue, and this one has that problem solved.
>>
>>
>> Or does it? Sid is the 'unstable' (vs. testing, stable) release. I 
>> don't know how unstable Sid is exactly. My guess is that it wouldn't 
>> be stable enough for newbies. It might be suitable for some users 
>> though. It depends on the user's requirements.
> 
> I'm not a Debian user, but from what I've heard, Sid is at least as 
> stable as the bleeding edge packages that come standard with a Mandrake 
> release. And we install Mandrake for people.
> 
> 
Me neither, so I don't know. Maybe Sid's stable enough. Any Debian users 
(der.hans?) want to chime in here?

I think that stability is an important attribute of whatever distros we 
install at IFs, especially for newbies. I don't know what's stable 
(enough) and what isn't.
-- 
-Eric 'shubes'
"There is no such thing as the People;
  it is a collectivist myth.
  There are only individual citizens
  with individual wills
  and individual purposes."
-William E. Simon (1927-2000),
     Secretary of the Treasury (1974-1977)
  "A Time For Truth" (1978), pg. 237

 
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