dapper repos???

[GoldBuggie]

I do not understand the meaning of the dapper repos. I wrote dapper in sources.list just to see if something happened and many things seems to get an update.

So I am wondering...should I start using dapper? Is there something negative about using it. Will some software not work etc.

[DoeRayMe]

Well nothing much has changed at the moment, updates will start happening in about 2/3 weeks

[duffman25]

I do not understand the meaning of the dapper repos. I wrote dapper in sources.list just to see if something happened and many things seems to get an update.

So I am wondering...should I start using dapper? Is there something negative about using it. Will some software not work etc.

Dapper is the current development release. Right now the devs are planning what they'll do in the next months so there's not much movement around it. If you want a stable system then use breezy, if you don't care if after an upgrade you're not able to log in, then feel free to use dapper.

You can also have a separete partition for dapper. Dapper will (most probably) crash someday, the same way hoary & breezy did during their development cycle.

[jatos]

In othe words if I want to test dapper on my main partition keep a backup of my home DIR.

[duffman25]

In othe words if I want to test dapper on my main partition keep a backup of my home DIR.

Yes, that would actually be safe to do. If somethings gets pretty bad, you can roll to a previous state with the colony-like cd's that the dev's get out every once in a while during the development cycle or return to the stable release.