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Anikom15

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From: United States

Registered: 2009-04-30

Posts: 836

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Should I use testing?

Is it really problematic?

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Barrucadu

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From: York, England

Registered: 2008-03-30

Posts: 1,158

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Re: Should I use testing?

You perhaps have to be a bit more wary of kernel or xorg updates, but on the whole it's pretty stable.

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dyscoria

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Registered: 2008-01-10

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Re: Should I use testing?

And make sure to subscribe to the arch dev public mailing list.

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flowheat

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From: Pittsburgh, PA

Registered: 2008-09-23

Posts: 94

Re: Should I use testing?

And make sure to subscribe to the arch dev public mailing list.

As long as you pay attention that mailing list I'd say 99% of the time you're aware of a problem before you get around to updating.  As long as you're willing to accept the possible consequences(most of which can be mitigated with a good back up system) testing is great for those of us who want the newest software asap(which I imagine is why most are here).

Personally I've been running it for over a year now(wow my first whole year with arch) and haven't had any problems I couldn't recover from.

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ozar

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From: USA

Registered: 2005-02-18

Posts: 1,686

Re: Should I use testing?

Should I use testing?

If you are experimental by nature, then you definitely should.

It's actually a good way to learn a little more about how Linux works, or it doesn't work if it should break, and it's very helpful to the package maintainers to have lots of willing testers.

Hope you have fun with it! 

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descendent87

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Registered: 2009-07-23

Posts: 105

Re: Should I use testing?

I've used testing for ages and not run into any major problems, just subscribe arch-dev-public mailing list and keep an eye on the testing forum before any major updates and you should be fine, enjoy life on the bleeding edge

1LordAnubis

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Registered: 2008-10-10

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Re: Should I use testing?

I don't see any *need* to run testing on Arch.. its very up to date.

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ngoonee

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From: Between Thailand and Singapore

Registered: 2009-03-17

Posts: 7,360

Re: Should I use testing?

I don't see any *need* to run testing on Arch.. its very up to date.

How about testing packages so that they're more stable by the time they reach [core]?

That's the POINT of [testing] anyhow....

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fastfret79

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Registered: 2009-09-05

Posts: 87

Re: Should I use testing?

I've been thinking of enabling [testing] for a while and after reading this thread I have.

Just updated and rebooted and no problems so far.

sHyLoCk

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From: /dev/null

Registered: 2009-06-19

Posts: 1,197

Re: Should I use testing?

I used testing for a while, no major issues except for X and nvidia package upgrades.

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JohannesSM64

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From: Norway

Registered: 2009-10-11

Posts: 623

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Re: Should I use testing?

I'm happy with non-[testing], but I'm planning to enable [testing] in a while, when I get more proficient with GNU/Linux/*nix/Arch. Mainly to help spot bugs ASAP.

pogeymanz

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Registered: 2008-03-11

Posts: 1,020

Re: Should I use testing?

I guess I will enable [testing] and just not jump the gun with Xorg and kernel updates. I want to contribute to Arch, so I feel obligated.

ngoonee

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From: Between Thailand and Singapore

Registered: 2009-03-17

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Re: Should I use testing?

*puts on Allan cap*

If you're running [testing] then of course you'd be subscribed to the [arch-dev-public] mailing list and receive all the updates from the packagers in real-time as they update their packages.

*takes off Allan cap*

I didn't break anything!

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Mr.Elendig

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Registered: 2004-11-07

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Re: Should I use testing?

My opinion is that if you have to ask on the forum is you should use it or not, then the answer is no.

Last edited by Mr.Elendig (2010-01-01 21:22:06)

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Primoz

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From: Ljubljana-Slovena-EU

Registered: 2009-03-04

Posts: 697

Re: Should I use testing?

I'm using it for quite sometime and so far so good, but currently I really don't need it as I use custom kernel and drivers...
But I'm seeing that some have problems with Kernel2.6.32, but I've used it for quite awhile (before changing it for custom kernel) and I had no problems with it.
So I'd say it's OK.
I had slight problems updating some packages like klibc-kbd, but that was more or less it. But don't forget to also add community-testing.

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reuben

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Registered: 2009-10-07

Posts: 10

Re: Should I use testing?

I don't use the testing repo, but sometimes I'll pull a pkgbuild from testing using abs.