[ale] Debian 3.0 as a server platform?

James Sumners james.sumners at gmail.com
Sat Jun 4 13:32:28 EDT 2005


I won't even begin speculating on that one. Someone was probably just
building it for, erm, testing purposes.

On 6/4/05, Jim Popovitch <jimpop at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-06-04 at 13:06 -0400, James Sumners wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> My mistake (although one could say this is yet another Debian nuance),
> Still what is Unstable doing in a cdimage-testing dir?  One would think
> that cdimage-testing/ is where the Testing version is.
> 
> -Jim P.
> 
> > 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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