From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Maarten De Boer Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Poll: Distro for audio and MIDI development Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 22:28:09 +0000 (UTC) Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: References: <3F1EC6D2.5010600@sambara.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: In-Reply-To: <3F1EC6D2.5010600@sambara.org> Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: linux-audio-dev@music.columbia.edu Cc: alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org This is a nice coincidence, because I just installed Debian Sid ('unstable') on my home workstation. I am also a convinced Debian user, and all the servers and workstations I administrate are Debian Woody ('stable'). Now, recently, I have seen myself forced to install more and more backported packages, and backporting some myself, because Debian stable is rather conservative, and this can be a problem if you have new hardware, esp. video cards, or if you need to run recent versions of applications, are depend on recent versions of libraries... Personally, I think the release cycle of Debian should be a lot shorter, and I think a lot of people agree with that. On the other hand, on the web/mail/file/cvs servers I run, I really want stable. The good thing is, you get the choice, and I think Debian is the only distro with such a choice. A lot of distro's present unstable and untested things as stable. For me the clearest example, and actually the reason I switched to Debian, was RedHat's broken GCC (2.96 I think), which I guess was just included to pretend to be "cutting edge". Now, I recently installed a RedHat 9, and with PlanetCCRMA on top, it is very nice, but running Debian Sid does not feel less safe to me. And I would never run any mission- critical servers with RedHat. Here Debian stable is the safest bet. Anyway, I expect that I might switch to unstable, or at least testing, for some of the workstations, when I feel that modifying stable becomes more work and also more risky, than simply using unstable. Maarten ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100003ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01