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From: Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
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Subject: Re: I would be remiss if I didn't post...
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2024 11:35:27 -0500
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Joel wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

> candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
> wrote:
>>Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> wrote at 12:41 this Tuesday (GMT):
>>> Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> wrote:
>>>>Joel wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:
>>>>> candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>I'm on "Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)"
>>>>>
>>>>> Me too, unless something's been released very recently, it's the
>>>>> stable release currently.
>>>>
>>>>After my Debian Trixie experience, I'm going to stick with Sid.
>>>>
>>>>Then I don't have to memorize a new Debian name. :-)
>>>
>>> I don't do betas.  Trixie will eventually be the stable release, and
>>> I'll presumably want it then, just as I got Windows 11 on October 4th,
>>> 2021, because it was released based on a time zone halfway around the
>>> world, where it was already the 5th.
>>
>>I'm sticking to the stable branch (with a few backports sprinkled in). I
>>got burned by Endeavour already.
>
> Looks interesting, I guess you'd used it with the testing/unstable
> builds and had a problem?

Debian Sid has been my primary distro for a long time, except for the
Ubuntu on my ancient ASUS laptop.

Sometime you have to be careful when (say) aptitude reports a problem
and offers multiple solutions to it. It can sometime pay to do the upgrade a
few days later.

-- 
On the night before her family moved from Kansas to California, the little
girl knelt by her bed to say her prayers.  "God bless Mommy and Daddy and
Keith and Kim," she said.  As she began to get up, she quickly added, "Oh,
and God, this is goodbye.  We're moving to Hollywood."