> Ahhh...a fellow debianista w/ a powerpc! Just found out the other day
> that Linus runs a G5 w/ Linux (of course) as his main machine. How cool
> is that? Looks like us ppc types might get some equal standing after
> all! :-)
>
> But this is a general question you have about your sources.list file.
> You won't 'kill' your system, but you may have trouble with updating
> from time to time. I think you'd be better off w/ using 'testing' (aka
> sarge). It's very stable for what I've needed...and fairly up to date,
> without being bleeding edge.
>
> Just change the places in /etc/apt/sources.list that say "stable" to
> "testing"...e.g.:
> deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
Heh...save your changes, then from the command line as root:
apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade
You'll get a massive list of packages that will get upgraded, and if you
say 'Y' then they'll get downloaded, upgraded, all that stuff.
Russell (part II)
> HTH
>
> Russell
-- Russell Hires <rhires@earthlink.net>
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