02-09-2013
Debian is probably the distribution with the most conservative attitude of all when it comes to version acceptance. Use a "Debian Stable" if you want something which will still be running in the next ice-age. "Debian Testing" and "Debian Unstable" are by no means insecure or crash-prone, just not that rigorously tested as "Stable".
For your laptop the advatages of having newer software, which is probably farther developed by far outweighs the disadvantage of having statistically one crash more every 20 years. As long as you don't control atomic power plants or similarily sensitive things with this system you probably will come to like it. I have a "Debian Unstable" somewhere on my notebook and never had any problems with it, I mainly use Fedora Core, but that is more because of personal taste than because of any shortcoming of Debian.
I hope this helps.
bakunin
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moz-version
MOZ-VERSION(1) mozilla-devscripts suite MOZ-VERSION(1)
NAME
moz-version - version format handling tool
SYNOPSIS
moz-version [options] action
DESCRIPTION
moz-version is a tool for working with version string from the Mozilla suite. It can compare Mozilla versions, convert Mozilla version
into Debian upstream version and the other way round.
ACTIONS
-c, --compare version1 comparator version2
Compare version numbers, where comparator is a binary operator. moz-version returns success (zero result) if the specified condi-
tion is satisfied, and failure (non-zero result) otherwise. The comparator must be one of lt le eq ne ge gt.
-d, --to-deb version
Converts Mozilla version into a Debian upstream version. For a full Debian version you have to add a revision.
-m, --to-moz version
Converts Debian version into a Mozilla version. The Debian revision and the epoch will be stripped away.
OPTIONS
-h, --help
Display a brief help message.
-s, --silent
Do not print anything and die silent on errors.
-v, --verbose
Print more information.
AUTHOR
Benjamin Drung <bdrung@debian.org>
moz-version August 2009 MOZ-VERSION(1)