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On 12/23/2013 04:36 PM, Tim wrote:
On 24/12/13 07:01, Erick Brunzell
wrote:
On 12/23/2013 01:47 PM, Jack Ramsay
wrote:
Should I be running trusty?
Not for daily use - NO!
That is an over generalisation, if you need rock solid stability
then best to stick with the current stable release, otherwise it
it probably fine for daily use.
Things can break frequently using versions of any OS that's
still in development.
This is not really true these days, with all the automated testing
and the such. Breakage is very rare these days, occasionally
something will slip through the cracks but these tend to get fixed
pretty quickly. More common are general regressions as packages
get updated, however mostly these are just minor annoyances.
The main perceived difference in stability is actually just a
different apport configuration, that more aggressively reports
crashes and errors.
One thing to note however is that you should *never* use the
-proposed repo for the current development release. This is 100%
guaranteed to cause breakage, it is not meant for human
consumption!
It's best to test the dev versions of any OS in either a
multi-boot environment or in a VM.
If you do run trusty, its probably worth having a backup
installation on another partition, just in case things do go bad,
even though thats pretty unlikely to happen
Tim
Thanks for the input Tim :^)
But we'll have to agree to disagree on this topic - the original
question was, "Should I be running trusty?", no more or no less!
I stand by my statements.
Lance
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