The "bitching" about his Debian install was what I found most interesting. My view of Debian is of a slow-to-change, highly stable distribution. Now, bearing in

The "bitching" about his Debian install was what I found most interesting. My view of Debian is of a slow-to-change, highly stable distribution. Now, bearing in mind he had switched to the unstable branch but still found it reliable over a lengthy period of time, it was somewhat disturbing to see he could end up in a pretty bad spot after a reboot.