[Preston] debian newbie - correction

[Jon Hill]

ok, noted.

I am just trying with the stable version on a server for now. I'll leave KDE / 
desktop for another day.

Jon

On Tuesday 09 December 2003 13:14, Andrew King wrote:
> I said:
> > Edit the file /etc/apt/sources.list. Here's a sample file which, after
> > running apt-get update, should cause the system to know how to
> > retrieve packages stored in stable and testing on the primary UK
> > mirror. deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian stable main
> >
> > deb-src ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian stable main
> >
> > deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian testing main
> > deb-src ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian testing main
> >
> > #deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian unstable main
> > #deb-src ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian unstable main
> >
> > deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
>
> Matthew told me a few weeks ago that this is a bad idea - apparently
> there should only ever be one of stable/testing/unstable in there,
> whereas I thought it was more of a cumulative thing when I made those
> notes.  So if you're using the above config file, you'd probably want to
> comment out two of the stable, testing and unstable lines.
>
> Stable really seems to pay off in my experience BTW.  I've had that big
> problem with KDE, but other than that it's been very good - pretty
> exceptional I spose.  I literally have not have my system screw up on me
> once all year other than when I've been messing round with stuff I
> shouldn't have as root.  (Like once I wrote this program that lets a
> remote user connect to a specified port and blink a message full screen
> on my monitor to get attention - probably shouldn't post that though as
> it'll be a major security hazard - it even managed to crash his
> telnet.exe under Windows!  Let me know if you do want it...)
>
> Andrew
>
>
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