The word "unstable" with reference to software actually means "changes often." Many people use Debian Unstable as their primary desktop OS and it doesn't crash all the time or anything. The daily releases are extremely "Unstable" in this regard.
On the other hand, they shouldn't break any more often than the alpha releases, if you are used to running those. Not recommended as a primary OS, but should be fine to play with if you install it on a different partition. If you are not comfortable repartitioning your harddrive, you probably shouldn't be running a dev release.
Let's put it this way... Ubu dev branches are brittle and easily broken, especially when you're running "off the reservation" like I am (hacking the DE, and so forth).
Personally, I look forward to the breakage. Stress is exhilarating, when you're on top it. It's only when stress rolls over you, that it kills you.
If you aren't into chaos and mayhem, I strongly suggest staying away from dev releases!
Intel ® P4 Extreme Edition 3.4 (Gallatin) || DFI ® LanParty PRO875B rev B1
Crucial ® Ballistix Tracer PC4000 1GB || Mountain Mods U2-UFO Opti-1203
XFX 7600GT 560M AGP (PV-T73A-UDF3) || Corsair HX520W Modular PSU
Linux 3.7 is almost fully cooked, then I'll be off to 3.8, as soon as the rcs hit the gits.
Things are moving very quickly, right now. I installed a new kernel every day, during the past week -- had to keep clearing them out, because my root partition was getting dangerously full.
Anyway, it isn't a race. I just enjoy testing kernels -- that's all. It's sort of a fetish with me. LoL!
Intel ® P4 Extreme Edition 3.4 (Gallatin) || DFI ® LanParty PRO875B rev B1
Crucial ® Ballistix Tracer PC4000 1GB || Mountain Mods U2-UFO Opti-1203
XFX 7600GT 560M AGP (PV-T73A-UDF3) || Corsair HX520W Modular PSU
Intel ® P4 Extreme Edition 3.4 (Gallatin) || DFI ® LanParty PRO875B rev B1
Crucial ® Ballistix Tracer PC4000 1GB || Mountain Mods U2-UFO Opti-1203
XFX 7600GT 560M AGP (PV-T73A-UDF3) || Corsair HX520W Modular PSU
Currently on Ubuntu 12.04 with GNOME Shell... I don't know if upgrade yet, Unity wasn't good on Quantal and... well, GNOME Shell is good but Unity is more productive. I also downloaded Mint 14 RC with Cinnamon and replaced OpenSUSE with it; it has nothing to do with Mint 13, it's gorgeous and ultra-stable!
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Catbuntu (blog)CPU→Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2,00GHz. RAM→3GB. Graphics card→NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS. O.S.→Ubuntu 14.04 «Trusty Tahr» 64 bit
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Away from my testing/distro-hopping partition...
This is my everyday, stable Linux install. My daily workhorse.
OS: Fuduntu 2012.4
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Last edited by Uncle Spellbinder; November 19th, 2012 at 03:36 PM.
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