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Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users, was: Re: The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling



On Sun, 25 Jul 2010, Teemu Likonen wrote:
> * 2010-07-25 12:54 (+0200), Marc Haber wrote:
> 
> > stable = release
> > testing = current
> > unstable = development
> 
> I like these. They describe the three distributions well and "current"
> might encourage more users than "testing". Advertising "constantly
> usable" and trendy "rolling release" would surely help.

+1

I would not introduce "release" but just keep "stable", it describes the
distribution well.

But "current" is definitely a better name for "testing" and "development"
(or "devel") would be a nice alias for "unstable".

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