Re: [OFFTOPIC] 1L?

[tomas]

On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 03:34:08PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > AOL! Except my switch was when a SuSE distro failed to upgrade in 2001.

> My initial machine (Thinkpad X30) was brand new in 2003, so it's still
> alive and kicking [...]

Wow.

> Actually, I also remember now that another selling point for Debian was
> the "testing" version, which lets you do "lots of small painless
> upgrades" instead of "less frequent but more painful upgrades".

Debian "testing" as an ersatz rolling release. Yes, I did that for a while
too. Works, mostly.

Another crazy combo is stable+unstable (never do stable+testing!).

Cheers
-- tomás

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