On 8 Oct 2009 at 14:04, Juan Diego wrote: > once you understand that the ones behind archlinux development are > human beings and that as human beings they can make mistakes makes you > be prepared for unexpected results after updates, thats the price you > have to pay for having a bleeding edge distribution. > > as simple as this, with a bleeding edge distribution you have to deal > with possible packaging errors but with "stable" distributions you > have to deal with outdated software. > > what I do is: I dont update archlinux on my laptop unless I have some > free time, and also I dont update my server unless I had updated my > laptop and checked that everything is working fine. Yeah, that's Arch. It is a hard decision to choose between bleeding edge software with some errors and outdated software with stability. Time is the factor. A year ago, or so, I used Debian and by that time I had much more time then today so I start trying other distributions because I wasn't satisfied with outdated software. No time - no update. That's a good advise! And I love the link (http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Enhancing_Arch_Linux_Stability) I got from David! Thanks. -- O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org
