[H-GEN] Debian install newbie

[Christopher Biggs]

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David Duffy <david at audiovisualdevices.com.au> moved upon the face of the 'Net and spake thusly:

>
> I've just noticed that there is a line in /etc/apt/sources.list that
> mentions "unstable"! 

Debian has three options: stable (as much as a year old but rock solid)
                          unstable (latest bleeding edge everything)
                          testing  (trails unstable by a few weeks).

Newbies should run stable.   Once you get the hang of apt and dpkg, by
all means run testing or unstable if you need the latest version of
something and it's not in stable.   Unstable only causes pain a couple
of times a year in my experience (the last one was a version of the linker
that crashed.  I downgraded manually to be the previous version until
the bug was fixed a couple of days later).

> Should I just throw the
> apc CD's in the bin 

They worked fine for me.  I installed stable off the CDs, then
upgraded (off a local cache) to unstable a while later.

--cjb


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