[Grml] mixing of distributions grml - unstable - testing - sarge for notebook

[Michael Prokop]

* Erich Minderlein <erminderlein at locoware.de> [20061027 13:11]:

> For the user applications I would like to use as much as possible 
> stable applications, also for a low update rate. 
> (gnome desktop, gdm, evolution...)
> For the hardware I am forced to use up to date 
> kernel drivers X server etc . 
> I did not succeed up to now to resolve these dependencies.
> So I cannot use the notebook. 
> Do I need dbus ? 
> it is broken when installing gnome desktop environment.  
> I definitely need udev, but it is also broken. 
> other dependencies may show up when continuing 

> So I cannot use the notebook up to now for user work. 
> how to proceed. 

Stable¹, up2date, low update-rate. Chose 2 of them. :)

* Very stable, not up2date, low update rate:           Debian stable
* Quite stable, more up2date, not so high update rate: Debian testing
* Unstable, up2date, high update rate:                 Debian unstable

grml is similar to the third option, with less "Unstable" inside. If
you are following the grml release cycle, the upgrade path² is not
such pain in the ass. Especially because I run several regression
tests and report every found problem to the Debian BTS³ (hey, call
me a wrapper around Debian/unstable! 8-)), but also thanks to nifty
stuff like grml-policy-rc.d (I hope you are aware of it, are you?).

Oh, and to keep the update rate in the third option lower: you could
pin grml to Debian/testing (as proposed by T in his mail).

If nothing of the above is an option for you, and if Debian stable
via d-i does not work, you can install plain Debian via grml:

  http://michael-prokop.at/blog/2006/08/11/install-debian-etch-via-grml/

Make sure you get a recent kernel version then, use backports where
necessary and useful.

But of course all of the above depends on your exact needs.

¹ Not necessarily as in "stable software", but as in "stable
  packagemangement, stable upgrade path, stable bugs".

² http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=upgrading

³ http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?submitter=mika@grml.org

²^² Daddy, help! We are running out of iso8859-numbers. Let's get
    some coffee instead.

regards,
-mika-
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