[Linux-Biella] Differenza Sid/Sarge [gia` openoffice e importa file]

[Luigidigi]

Andrea Ferraris wrote:
> Scusate l'ignoranza. E' gradito anche un riferimento a URL dove sia
> spiegato.
> Che differenza c'e` fra Sid e Sarge?
> 
> Andrea

La verzione oficiale e' questa:

Sarge/Testing is composed of packages from Sid/Unstable that are stable 
enough to be "tested" for superb stability an later on, moved to 
Woody/Stable as a non-crashing, supersecure distro. The problem with 
this, is that by that time, the packages are too old for some of us.
Many people love this, they love never to have to worry about anything.
You can use kernel 2.2.x or 2.4.x Sarge is the best of both worlds, very 
stable and with a fairly modern packages for the desktop.

Check the different packages in the 3 versions:
http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages

Unstable/Sid is the favorite of most young geeks, it has the latest 
packages. So When you download the latest version of RH or Slack, you 
are downloading the equivalent (in the Debian world) of Sid. It's a 
matter of taste, you report the bugs, they fix them you download again, 
or get a new version in a couple of months. In sid, you install and 
update and upgrade don't have to reinstall you continue with the same 
one. Hardware is not that important unless you are scientist but the 
BROADBAND. In both versions you have to update and download at your 
convenience (i do it every morning because it takes me 5 minutes) my 
cousin does it once a week takes him 30 minutes, we both use ADSL (256).

And then you got another source more avant-garde than Sid, the "extra 
official repositories" in apt-get.org, done by geeks who provide 
sources.list lines that you add to your /etc/apt/sources.list, update 
and install using apt-get. Also they got "backports" for Woody and 
Sarge. For example: Woody and Sarge come with Moz 1.0 but you want the 
latest, you look in www.apt-get.org for a backport for Woody, add the 
lines to the sources list, update, and install y presto!, you got Woody 
with the latest Mozilla, etc, etc, with the rest...

I gotta go, the wife wants me to take her grocery shopping. :)

Later,
luigi