Re: [Pan-users] Re: Xandros 3.0 (debian)

[Jim Reiss]

> Thank you for the help, but why would I want to add something that is 
> unstable?  Stability is one of the reasons I wanted to see if I could 
> learn to navigate Linux.  If I want unstable I can stick with windows.
Debian has three distributions called stable, testing, and unstable.
You shouldn't read too much into the names.  The testing one is actually
very stable (it's being readied right now to become the new "stable"), and
at the moment "unstable" just means it gets updated a lot.  Debian now has
an "experimental" variant where the really questionable stuff goes.  The
unstable branch may get more volatile once there's a new "stable", but
even then you shouldn't have to worry.  All of the core packages you're
using come from Xandros.

Anyway, I don't know which of the three the "Debian Unsupported" option
in XN would select, but either testing or unstable would give you the
latest usable version of pan.

I run Debian unstable on a number of machines...those machines are far
more reliable than the Windows machines I manage.