[ale] strange keyboard problem

[James Sumners]

If I had to pick a distribution over all others, I would pick Debian.
Currently, I run Debian stable on my server and Arch Linux on my
desktop. When I ran Debian on my desktop, I used the unstable branch.

I am totally adverse to running a mix of any of the branches. I will
occasionally use a backport on stable. As for the testing being
"constantly broken" statement, that may be a bit too strong. However,
when testing breaks, it breaks. There is a much longer time between
merges from unstable -> testing than there is from experimental ->
unstable. So if a package (or set of packages) comes into testing from
unstable, and they somehow break the testing branch, you will most
likely have to wait a while before you get fixed packages. I've seen
situations where apt couldn't install anything in testing because the
libc6 package was broken; and it took way too long to get a fixed
libc6.

Of course, unstable comes with its own set of headaches. Namely,
having to update too frequently. I've really come to like the way Arch
Linux's system works. Particularly for desktop systems. I'm not sure
if I would use it over Debian on a server, but I intend to load Arch
Linux on my MythTV box when I build it.

On Jan 11, 2008 12:42 PM, Preston Boyington <preston.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> James Sumners wrote:
> > Ugh, testing. That translates to "constantly broken" in my mind.
>
> really?  i haven't (personally) had any problems in the last couple of
> years running a Testing/Unstable mix on my laptop.
>
> seems like the "Testing" release is on par with the other distros
> regular releases, but YMMV.
>
> (i forget do you use Debian or a derivative?)
>


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