[ILUG] Going to try debian

[Niall O Broin]

On 6 Sep 2004, at 17:30, Justin wrote:

> OK now I'm confused.  I got the net install ISO.  I have my mirrors.
>
> So "testing" is the beta / release candidate  of "sarge" which is the 
> next stable release ?

No - at any given moment, there are at least three Debian releases - 
stable, testing, unstable (there is also experimental but it's a little 
different). These streams have names - stable is currently woody, 
testing is sarge and unstable is sid.

Very shortly now, sarge is going to be declared stable. I presume sid 
will become testing, and there will be a new testing stream which will 
have a name which is not known to me now. So a box which currently has 
testing installed will become stable.  http://www.debian.org/releases  
is the place to go to learn about this.

> Have I got that right?  If this is the case I would guess that 
> updating from testing to the stable release of sarge, when ever that 
> happens, should be fairly painless and can be done though the package 
> manager apt-get ???? Right?

You should install sarge, or unstable, now, as that will be stable very 
soon. However, I'm not sure what magic you need to do with your 
sources.list file to straighten things out when the actual release 
happens.


Niall