[ale] Debian 3.0 as a server platform?

[James Sumners]

Sid will never be stable. It will always be unstable. Woody is the
current stable, Sarge is the upcoming stable, and Etch will be the
next testing. Sid will remain unstable.

On 6/4/05, Jim Popovitch <jimpop at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-06-04 at 03:54 -0400, Raylynn Knight wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 20:41 -0400, James Sumners wrote:
> > > If you find a pre-built Sparc image I would be surprised. The last
> > > time I decided to play around and (try to) install Debian on a Sparc I
> > > had to use a full CD.
> > >
> > Sarge image is available at
> > http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/sparc/rc3/sarge-sparc-netinst.iso
> 
> Thanks Raylynn,
> 
> This shows some of the more interesting aspects of using Debian.
> Currently "Testing" is Sarge.  So one would expect to find
> sarge-sparc-netinst.iso in a cdimage-testing directory.  Also in that
> cdimage-testing directory is a current(?) archive of Sid (Stable).
> What's that doing in a cdrom-testing directory?  And why is Sid dated
> 03-Jun-2005?
> 
> I guess my point is this:  With Debian, things just aren't always clear
> and well explained. ;-)
> 
> -Jim P.
> 
> 
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