On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 08:40:00AM -0400, Michael Galloway wrote: > Hi Steve! > > ok, so what is the real functional difference? Stable (Woody at the moment): A bit dated, but very well tested and security support available. Testing (Sarge at the moment): Automatically generated from unstable for packages meeting certain (quality) criteria. No security support available, user has to wait until fix propagates from unstable. Unstable (Sid): Main development branch of Debian. Security issues are dealt by new uploads (possibly new version). Very current, occassionally (but seldom) things break here (and thus are delayed from propagating into testing). Once the number of release-critical bugs is low enough (zero) Testing will be frozen (no new propagation from unstable) and declared stable under the name of Sarge. Greetings Helge -- Helge Kreutzmann, Dipl.-Phys. Helge.Kreutzmann@itp.uni-hannover.de gpg signed mail preferred gpg-key: finger kreutzm@zibal.itp.uni-hannover.de 64bit GNU powered http://www.itp.uni-hannover.de/~kreutzm Help keep free software "libre": http://www.freepatents.org/
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