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Re: Surpassing Microsoft quality



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Mgr. Peter Tuharsky wrote:
>    Hi
> 
> 
>    I've been using Debian for 4 years because I felt confident about
> it's quality. I've swallowed the ancient software in the name of
> stability. I've been proud of security updates. I learned how to make
> the desktop useful for human beings.
> 
>    Now, I have awaken because of bug 372719. Wine crashes,
> OpenOffice.org 2.0 crashes upon saving a document. The bug was
> introduced in "security update" of libfreetype. Identification of
> problem was quick in OpenOffice.org community, and also in Debian. Just
> apply the next security update that will fix the bug.

IIRC, "security updates" do just (and *only*) that: fix *security*
bugs, not *feature* bugs.

- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

Is "common sense" really valid?
For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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