On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 06:34:12PM -0700, s. keeling wrote:
I look at things like grml as terrific features on top of Debian and free software. grml's on the frontlines in the war on bugs. They're just a little bit more careful than Sid people about when they stick their heads up. They're also confident that even "unstable" Debian/Linux/FS is way usable, and can perform some pretty awesome tricks. I think that's pretty cool.
We have never claimed that sid is ready to be used by end-users. sid is a development platform and might be dangerous. We expect people running sid to be able to fix major issues that might be present themselves, there is no support. There are times (usually shortly after a release) where even I don't dare updating my sid systems.
I mainly still see grml as a live CD that is a _very_ good tool during system analysis, debugging, recovery and installation. I doubt, however, that such systems are a good solution to install on a hard disk and actually use.
Greetings Marc