Re: Anyone using x.org?

On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 12:46:23PM +1000 Russell Shaw said:
> 
> After setting sources.list and apt.conf for sid/unstable debs, run
> apt-get update then apt-get dist-upgrade. You might need to do some simple
> manual fixing afterwards. After that, whenever you want a new package, just
> apt-get it. Only need to run dist-upgrade once or twice a year. Despite the
> name "unstable", i've only ever had problems during the occaisional 
> dist-upgrade
> which updates *every* package on the system. A *lot* can be learnt by 
> reading
> the debian-user list for a while, but it is high traffic. You can also read
> (but not post) it from news:linux.debian.user

I was a subscriber for about two years until I started working in the day; 
after that I gave up. It is something like 400 messages a day but you're right, 
it is a damn good way of learning.
I've been running testing for about two years now with just one
breakage, when I installed CUPS.

> It is a good idea to have a second old pc that you can get on the web with,
> if you break your main system. It allows you to be extra bold and reckless
> in your system hacking;) I rarely need a second pc now, because i can
> fix most breaks from the command line.
> It is also worth subscribing to Debian Weekly News:
> http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/

I used to get that at work, but then it never gets read, stays in the
to-be-read folder and gets deleted after some time. 

Sam
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