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Re: too late to the party?



Eike,

On Friday, August 23, 2024 6:09:25 PM MST Eike Lantzsch ZP5CGE / KY4PZ wrote:
> https://wiki.debian.org/DebianStability[1]
> Esepecially this part:
> "This is what Debian's Stable name means: that, once released, the operating
> system remains relatively unchanging over time."

I don’t necessarily disagree with you as to why it was named stable.  But, as 
a user of Debian for my daily driver for 25 years, I think there is no doubt 
that Debian stable is more stable in the manner being described here than 
Debian testing.  (Think of those periodic emails when something serious breaks 
that say, “That’s why it is called testing.”)

But along those lines, when talking to users who aren’t familiar with Debian 
and are sometimes put off by the name testing, I tell them that Debian testing 
is simply the rolling release.  In fact, I would probably consider it the most 
stable of all rolling Linux releases.  So, if you are the type of person who 
updates your packages every day, you probably can’t do better than Debian 
testing.

That being said, when KDE 6 drops into testing soon, I expect there to be a 
few days where not everything works.  That’s just par for the course.

-- 
Soren Stoutner
soren@debian.org

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