My desktop OS: Debian Etch
Some people like to work in Linux distributions that are at the cutting edge of technology. Other prefers stability at any cost. I want both, and Debian Testing, codenamed Etch, gives me that. The Debian project's testing tree has up-to-date software along with good stability, since packages are highly tested in the Unstable branch before they move to Testing.
I've been running Linux at home for about two years, having started playing with it about seven years ago. I tried several distributions but settled on Debian because of its fast, consistent, and safe package management system, with more than 15,000 packages available. Debian Stable, a.k.a. Sarge, is maybe the most stable distribution today, but its software packages tend to get old. Etch is appropriate for personal desktops and even some production ones.
To install Etch I started with a running Sarge that I was using for some time. All I needed to do was to edit the file /etc/apt/sources.list to point to the Testing tree, update the kernel to 2.6.12 version, and update the rest of the system. No errors occurred at all. It is possible to install Etch directly from an ISO created daily and available at debian.org.
Debian's hardware support just works.
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