Let me ask about Debian

Let me ask about Debian

Posted Sep 20, 2006 8:40 UTC (Wed) by tyhik (subscriber, #14747)
In reply to: Let me ask about Debian by felixfix
Parent article: My Gentoo odyssey (Linux.com)

I have used debian for many years and about last 4 years, I have used only unstable on my development boxes and at home. The unstable branch has been really stable for me. During these 4 years, there have been about 6-7 incidents, when I have noticed something broken. I have hit the package dependency problems a few times, a few times got crashing firefox and once got emacs which did not color file content correctly. Dependency problems needed tweaking, but in general the next day the problems were fixed. I usually upgrade once a month and avoid upgrading in the middle of busy times.

Now, I probably run just a narrow set of software on my boxes, needed for c/c++ development. Also, I have always compiled my kernels myself, so I cannot comment on debian kernels.

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