Re: Etch vs. Sarge -- can't make up my mind

From: Kent West (westk_at_acu.edu)
Date: 07/12/05

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    Benjamin Sher wrote:

    >Dear Alexandru:
    >
    >Thanks so much for an excellent clarification.
    >
    >
    >
    Whoa! Did Alexandru reply off-list? Shame on him/her! Now the rest of us
    don't get the benefit of his/her answer, nor does anyone in the future
    who might be searching the archives for just the answer he/she provided.

    (Or perhaps that message just got lost on its way to me; in that case,
    "Never mind" (in the immortal words of Gilda Radner).)

    >Two follow-up questions:
    >
    >1) I have decided a few minutes ago to go with Sarge for the
    >reasons you mentioned. If I add apt-get.org and backports.org to
    >my apt sources, will I be able to seamlessly add updated
    >applications as they become available? Is this a good idea?
    >
    >
    Yes and no. You should be able to add packages, but I think you may have
    a rougher time of it on occasion if you stray from the official Debian
    repositories. (backports.org might be "official" enough to work okay.)

    >2) I have alredy downloaded "netinstall" (rc3). I thought that was
    >for the testing distro. Can I use this also for Sarge?
    >
    >

    If it's a Sarge netinstall, yes; if it's an Etch netinstall, maybe.
    This is the official Sarge netinstall:
    http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r0a/i386/iso-cd/debian-31r0a-i386-netinst.iso
    I'm not sure where you go the "rc3" netinstall, but I suspect it was the
    Sarge installer when Sarge was still Testing, in which case, yes, it'll
    work. 

    -- 
Kent
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