Does anyone run Squeeze or Sid?

Apopcalyptic

Apopcalyptic

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Just out of curiosity really, does anyone here run the testing or unstable branches of Debian?

I broke my nice stable Lenny install yesterday, by changing my apt-sources to squeeze. I gave up trying to fix it, so I'm currently freshly installing from a squeeze netinst CD... Ho hum... :p

edit - The reason for wanting to upgrade, rather typically, was a single piece of software that isn't in the stable tree yet. I got sixk of trying to sort the dependencies to compile from source, so broke the system trying.

The *real* problem now is that I'm tempted to go straight to Sid once this has finished installing, *just* so that I can try E17, because again, apt has made me lazy :p
 
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I run Debian (relectantly) Squeeze (makes it a touch more bareable) at work with a couple of sid packages thrown in using pinning. It's been stable for me so far although minor problems do crop up now and again.
 
tntcoder said:
Very nice. What do you use the Sheeva for?

I was considering getting one as a firewall.
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It's a file and print server for the LAN at home. I also use it to run rsync backups of various bits of my servers. Oh, and IRSSI.

It's running Debian Squeeze from a 16GB SDHC card, not using the onboard NAND at all any more.

Definitely recommend them, they're excellent little things.
 
i've ran debian stable for years as a network server, and have in the past ran debian unstable (or was it testing?, the one in the middle iyswim) as a desktop machine without any major issues.
 
Apopcalyptic said:
Just out of curiosity really, does anyone here run the testing or unstable branches of Debian?

I broke my nice stable Lenny install yesterday, by changing my apt-sources to squeeze. I gave up trying to fix it, so I'm currently freshly installing from a squeeze netinst CD... Ho hum... :p

edit - The reason for wanting to upgrade, rather typically, was a single piece of software that isn't in the stable tree yet. I got sixk of trying to sort the dependencies to compile from source, so broke the system trying.

The *real* problem now is that I'm tempted to go straight to Sid once this has finished installing, *just* so that I can try E17, because again, apt has made me lazy :p
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I run Debian squeeze on my home fileserver as well (uptime 208 days and counting) & desktop PC.
On the fileserver, I've not had any issues whatsoever with it - it's been perfectly stable - although I don’t often update much, so it’s probably not that much different from Lenny...

On my desktop PC, it's not quite as stable - for the most part it's fine - but KDE4 can be a bit flaky at times (I've never ended up with a broken system after upgrading something though).

I know exactly what you mean about apt making you lazy, I used to use Slackware - where pretty much any remotely unusual software require comping for source (although it did play nice with vanilla kernels, which was good) - but now I'll just let apt upgrade as many packages it wants. Fairly recently that meant a new kernel + upgrading KDE for something trivial like a CD ripper (I can't remember for sure what it was - but it was some small app).
 
slylittlefox said:
Very nice :) How much did that cost?

(I've been reading about your second balloon launch btw - glad to see it all went OK this time)
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It was about £85inc when I bought it IIRC. There are these snazzy new Guruplugs around now which are very tempting. It was definitely worth it though, it's such a great little device.

Thanks for the comment about the balloon! Yep went much better this time, well chuffed :D
 
i used to run sid with the smxi script a few years ago. you've got to be careful about new packages as sometimes breakages can occur. but smxi does make things much easier.
 
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