Comments on: My Debian Black-out – the price of bleeding edge

By: Jimmy Collins

Jimmy Collins — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:37:54 +0000

Sidux (www.sidux.org), based on Debian unstable, is worth a look. It may give you the balance between stability and cutting-edge that you’re looking for, and it offers a live CD to try before installing.

By: GregE

GregE — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 05:13:58 +0000

Disregard my previous post. An update today just killed samaba shares, just like it did in SID a few weeks ago.

Might as well just use SID – or maybe Ubuntu again

HoHum, fun

By: GregE

GregE — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 03:23:04 +0000

I had a small chuckle over your post as I consider the number of times SID has trashed me. I have used testing, unstable and Ubuntu in a merry-go-round for years. I am doggedly trying to stick with Squeeze and KDE 4.3.2. Dolphin is crashing all the time but otherwise it is stable – I use Konqueror for file management as it is rock solid. I know I can upgrade to SID and fix Dolphin and get KDE 4.3.3 but I also know it would only last a few weeks before something important goes belly up.

I had SID going a few weeks back and a SAMBA update blocked my access to my NAS box – I could have worked out a fix but it just made me think Squeeze is much more sensible on a working machine. Not quite the bleeding edge but still a thousand years ahead of Stable.

I guess it comes down to how much time you want to spend fixing updates versus actually using the computer for something useful.

By: daniel

daniel — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 07:15:19 +0000

I have a pretty much “default” unstable install, yes. Well, with some tweaks of course but…

In my case my wifi stopped working so I had to get my ethernet going and then I could login with ssh if I wanted, but I could use the console to login all the time (ctrl+alt F2).

By: Cae

Cae — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:39:03 +0000

Out of curiosity,

am I right to assume that yours is a default install?

I had the same “problem” with my desktop when using experimental + unstable (yep, I asked for it )

how can I login to the desktop with my perfectly working laptop?

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