Re: [LUG] Debian versions

["Ben Goodger" <goodgerster@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 5/12/07, Tony Sumner <tony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I just acquired a super laptop courtesy of the insurance company when my
daughter dropped the old one. I have a disc with the etch iso on it that
I used in March when etch was testing. I installed it and I was about
to do an apt-get upgrade when I noticed that the sources.list has

  deb  ...  lenny main

I know etch is now stable but who is lenny? Can I now change 'lenny'
to 'etch' and get myself a stable distro? Or do I have to get a new iso
file?

Lenny is Testing.
You will find it very difficult to downgrade to Etch (Stable), so you will need to get a new ISO for Etch.
Really though, Stable is only for servers and people who really need absolute stability - Testing is usually more stable than Ubuntu. You also get frequent incremental upgrades using Testing, as opposed to upgrading the whole distro at once.

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