On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 12:59 AM, Leslie Rhorer <lrhorer@satx.rr.com> wrote:
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>> Yes, it is for Squeeze, if you want the latest bugfixes and security
>> updates you should seriously consider running debian-testing instead
>> of stable.
>
>        No, thanks.  I loaded "Squeeze" on another non-RAID workstation in
> order to alleviate a kernel bug causing problems with a 3G wireless modem.
> It was quite unstable, and caused a number of issues, most problematically
> with the fact the distro assumes the system is not headless and would lock
> up tight on boot if no monitor is present.  All of the RAID systems are
> headless.  More importantly, stability is far and away the absolutely most
> important requirement for these servers.  New features I can live without.
> Bug fixes I don't need unless they directly affect the functioning of the
> system, which is highly focussed.  These systems have a handful of very
> basic, very mature apps.  They run NTP, FTP, SSH, rsync, NUT, SMART, SAMBA,
> NFS, and KDE.  One of them also runs Galleon, pyTivo, TyTool under wine, and
> openvpn server.  That's it.
>
>> Stable is reserved for 'mature' features.  Testing, as far
>> as I'm aware, will almost never (and should never if you are paying
>> attention) cause data-loss, but might occasionally get in to a
>> situation where something breaks; mostly just during upgrades (but
>> then that's true of any upgrade).
>
>        It's true no data was lost, but then it's a little difficult to lose
> data if the system hangs hard on boot.  I had to yank most of the guts out
> of the system to get it stable.  That, plus the new version of KDE really
> sucks badly, and I could not get Kpackage to work properly at all.  It also
> did something really goofy to pppd, but I was able to work around it by
> re-trying the pppd launch repeatedly on boot until it works.
>
>

Oh, is THAT where Ubuntu got 10.04's silly framebuffer required to
boot issue from...
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