Jaunty still in Beta?

[H.S.]

Thorny wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:42:27 -0400, H.S. posted:
> 
> Debian distributions "testing" and "unstable" are not betas and alphas,
> the Debian system is organized differently than the way many other distros
> work with RCs. I know it easy to think of "unstable" as alpha and
> "testing" as beta and "testing" is very similar to an RC beta as release

Actually, their Experimental is more like an alpha, Unstable is like a
beta and Testing is like a RC. Testing goes through very rigorous
testing before it is released.


> date gets close. The system is different, and, there are lots and lots of
> troubles in Debian just after a release date when people have upgrade and
> migration problems.

Yes, that happens after a release, but not "lots and lots". I am running
Testing on my machine. No problems since the last release. I am running
it on my home router and dns server as well. No problems. Unstable is
running on an AMD 64 machine. Other than KDE 4.2 problems with Nvidia
(in all distros I think), nothing much during the upgrade! Quite impressive.

But it is always strongly recommended to update very carefully during
that period and to postpone it by some weeks as a caution. Usually the
worst hit is Unstable though. However, the problems have reduced since
the last some years. The major problems in the past were, IIRC, due to
the change in C libraries upstream.


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